Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aristocrat" announces that "not with the eye of philosopher or critic, avoiding the quip and lesson of reformer, standing aside from bustle," it treads "the ways of antiquity," and it offers the modest hope that it may "calm the undergraduate mania for achievement with a leaven of whimsical humor...
Keen insight and an abundant humor have made Mr. Lincoln's characterizations of Cape Cod Sea Captains and fishermen, in his Cape Cod Stories, particularly delightful, and it is of these people that he will speak more particularly in his discussion of modern American fiction, Since Mr. Lincoln has devoted a great deal of time to the study of these "Cape Condition," as they have wittily been referred to, he is acquainted with them and their way of living as few have been, therefore he is particularly well qualified to portray their humorous side. He has also been for several...
...Kerry Gow", a play that is an old favorite in Boston, was presented for the first time in several years on Monday night at the Arlington Theatre. Its merry good-humor, its romance and exciting situations, made an irresistible appeal to an enthusiastic house...
...showed that he was not "another good man gone wrong". W. V. M. Faweett '21 is the assumed character of the 12-year-old Phoebe. P. L. Cheney '21 as the especial convict and R. S. Flinn '28, who played Mark Authony, the butler, provided an ample supply of humor...
Often it is better to pass over a criticism and try to explain the critic. Be it said at once that I have no hostility toward the middle-western man. But I think that if he had a keener sense of humor he would not be so dead in earnest about attacking poor old Boston. He breezes into Harvard with a mental complex, of which Chicago possibly is the password. He finds here a large number of his class-mates already acquainted and firmly established in a society into which he cannot break as a Ford breaks into a show...