Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incurable vulgarity of H. L. Mencken is mixed with a considerable amount of business acumen. . . . He has made his living for years by smart jibes at the common mind. Nothing is easier to write than this form of humor. He is completely alien to America. . . the penny-dreadful of the intelligentsia. . . a professional smart-Aleck...
...with clubs generally made every effort to incite the strikers to violent action. Of course, such melodramatic tactics have defeated their own ends. The strikers have refused to riot and every fresh outrage has gained them scores of sympathizers. For the detached mind there is even an element of humor in the picture painted of Garfield in metropolitan newspapers yesterday, when scores of deputy sheriffs patrolled the empty streets armed to the teeth seeking trouble while the workers watched behind closed doors...
...Hampshire quietly remarked that, if Senator Harrison was so interested in "the little brown man of the Philippines," he might also propose an investigation into the conditions of "the little black man in Mississippi." It was a very palpable hit which Pat Harrison took with his usual good humor, and then proceeded to urge a resolution that Congress send to the Philippines its own investigation committee. The Senator who champions the dignity of Congress will always be heard willingly in the Senate. But the Ohio Senators refused unanimous consent to give the resolution immediate consideration...
...Judge English said: "If I tell a jury to find a man guilty, and they do not, I will send them to jail." This remark is variously interpreted as 1) humor, 2) strenuous effort to get justice in an uncivilized community, 3) tyrannous conduct...
...Last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Chaliapin made his first (U. S.) appearance* as the Don, proved himself once more a master interpreter, able to grasp what Massenet had been temperamentally unable to?the irony, the humor, the pathos, of the first Don Quixote. On he came, splendidly, madly scattering largesse, singing to his love Dulcinea, who knew him only for a seedy dolt who roamed the countryside. Off he went, for her, to find her necklace stolen by a band of brigands; saw windmills in the clearing mist take shapes of giants making wild gestures with their...