Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neither new nor many-sided. Only a writer of M. Maurois' taste and charm could have kept out of all danger of becoming trite or tiresome. Under his pen the story keeps up one's expectant interest although it never becomes absorbing. His chapters often glint with quiet humor as when "Daddy Leroy", and old mill-hand, is perched on a pile of cloth, holding a pistol to his head, and his superiors discuss the pros and cons of suicide with him, while his fellow hands sit by with their fingers in their ears...
...anglers luckless with the fly this essay has proved a great boon. What if it did ruin the author's reputation as a fisherman? Although "Fishing with a Fly" and "Revisiting a River" contain the same charm, the same dry humor and lucid beautiful prose, they can not surpass this defense of the amateur fisherman. Why, I can not say, for such a paragraph as this lacks nothing...
...would be conscientious objectors who would remonstrate that architecture was being over-emphasized, the certain things could will be omitted from eternal memory, and that the cartoon's place is in the comic strip. To which the humanist could reply that no conservative level had a healthy sense of humor--and that if one is mocked for being indifferent, one may placate the public by being different, thus killing two birds with a single--and over-whelming gargoyle...
Though the Duke and Duchess of York have thus far taken all Australian manifestations with unfaltering good humor, a very different attitude was observed in Dame Margaret Helen Greville, intimate friend of Queen-Empress Mary, upon her return to London last week from Australia, where she had gone to prepare the social side of the welcome for the Duke and Duchess...
...follows in the wake of Sailor Bilge Smith (Charles King), finally towing him away from all those sweethearts in every port to her own suddenly acquired opulence. In addition to merry tunes, jolly chorus, salty high-spirits, the show has the rarest quality of the season-humor. The Thief. In her fourth attempt of the year, talented Alice Brady has hit upon a revival. Henri Bernstein's play was written two decades ago, in the era that demanded of the theatre a Big Scene with plenty of soft sweetness sandwiched in and around. The heroine steals from a wealthy...