Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judging from some of the communications you receive and publish, it would seem that if some folks ever catch cold in their sense of humor (or lack of it), O Boy, won't the undertakers be kept busy...
Among the so-called "light-fiction" monthlies, the "Cosmopolitan" is supreme, with the "Red Book" following close behind. The "American" and its how-I-became-a-successful-clothespinking stories trails a poor third, "College Humor" sells more copies than any other monthly periodical. With its collegiate cullings from all the college humorous magazines of the country except the Harvard "Lampoon", it stands in a field more or less...
There is in every one of us a very bitter streak, the present writer not excepted. The serious nature of the matter at hand has prevented me from attacking Mr. Hollister and his letter in their own way. I see little humor in the sorrow that lies in the crushed hearts of hundreds of mothers and fathers. However, if Mr. Hollister cares to know what the writer thinks of him and his letter, apart from his subject, I am at his service with all the disgust and scurrility I am able to command. G. Louis Joughin, '27. 6 Hollis Hall...
...Sense of humor, while it varies in different places, is not dependent upon Nationality, the producer disclosed in reply to a question about the difference between. American and English audiences. A Boston audience, he declared, is much more like a London audience than one in Detroit. "Our show this year," he want on, "has been very well-received everywhere we went, except in Detroit. There, before audiences composed chiefly of bibulous automobile makers, our show was a flop. They just couldn't see it. I like to watch the people who are watching my shows and it is interesting...
...morning because he particularly wants to have described to him the finger which Palmerston had in the Near Eastern pie; he is going to hear Professor Webster. This gentleman is an exchange professor from the University of Liverpool with a passion for a fresh air and a subtle English humor which would enliven any subject that needed resuscitation and make supremely interesting one that is already alive...