Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American humor has changed greatly since I have been here, and more still in the last 20 years. Also, it changes so much faster. A good thing in New York is known on the Pacific the next day, and the third day it is thrown out. In Scotland we take it for what it's worth, but we don't scrap it without consideration. As for the jokes about the Scotch, we laugh at them too, but they don't mean anything...
...innocuous Mr. Rodemich with flow of good humor and bursting jazz of brass was on hand; in fact, he introduced one of those silent tramps as "possibly the most imitative of pantomime artists". There were views of mountain Formosa, with our old friend the leafy branch waving from the right, to make it real and make you forget that the same branch was held in the same position in the Caucasus a month ago. The Wainwright Sisters sang in the Duncanesque manner and "Mephistophele" made a pleasant enough operatic tableau. But for a general opinion one is obliged to rely...
Senator Walsh has a brain, too; a patient, unbending, inexorable instrument in which he takes a chill delight when he brings it to bear on an Oil Scandal or a Power Probe. Unbending, unemotional, he has been called unique: "an Irishman without a sense of humor." Not until the past few years has he shown ambition nor, until very recently, even sufficient self-consciousness to trim up his Montaneering mustache of iron grey...
...miserable indeed are the attempts at humor. Most musical plays try hard to coax a laugh, usually failing utterly. Here the coaxing is incessant and the results beggar description. If you get a good laugh you get your money back...
...even to unfortunate falsifications within its columns of baseball scores to the ridiculous figures of twenty-three to two. The CRIMSON's position in these affairs it must be admitted has been unfortunate. Within its limited resources it has done what it could, but quite realizes the lack of humor it has displayed in changing, and making delition of, the favorable portions of the reviews of the various issues which it has printed in its pages. The CRIMSON can only regret its misguided efforts, and when one is confronted with twenty pages of such finished and wholesome good humor...