Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mistress of six languages besides her own, a student of Greek, a superb calligraphist, an excellent musician. She was a connoisseur of painting and poetry. She danced, after the Florentine style, with a high magnificence that astonished beholders. Her conversation, full, not only of humor, but of elegance and wit, revealed an unerring social sense, a charming delicacy of personal perception. It was this spiritual versatility which made her one of the supreme diplomatists of history...
...Haunted House. People have a peculiar and rather disagreeable way of reacting to dramas and pictures that are meant to be frightening. They laugh. Their laughter, of course, is not an expression of humor but simply of nervousness, a way of reminding themselves that it's all make-believe. When an insane murderer fixes his gaze on Chester Conklin's twitching face, they laugh; when a hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted...
...lets-get-together standard of prep school journalism. Certainly only the most desperate editorial crisis could induce the Vindex or Horae Scholasticae to print Mr. V. A. Brown's maudlin sentimentality or Mr. R. S. Minturn's epic of life-force agonies under any other head than that of humor. If your notions of story writing include the theme of the college bounder whose incredible extravagance leads him to the purchase of rosewood mounted radios and such bibelots with which to satisfy his sybaritic lusts and whose ultimate depravity is the selling of a pair of football tickets...
Green was nominated by the editorial staff of College Humor because of his musical contributions during the past few years. He is the composer of "Coquette" and has written tunes and scores for various musical shows at Harvard and elsewhere. His latest composition is "Lawribel" which is now being played by various dance orchestras although it will not be released to the public for a short time...
...page in College Humor called "We Nominate for the Hall of Fame" is devoted to the photographs and life stories of some of the most pronfinent college students from all over the country. Green's name will appear in one of the ensuing issues of the magazines...