Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner of the Elocution Class. Very luckily for the audience Mr. Francis Wilson bounced on to the stage a few moments later and in an absurdly serious speech, satirized the solemn bromides of the proceeding speakers so masterfully that the atmosphere was once again restored to sanity and good humor...
...most famous of undergraduate poetic flights, "the Rebellisd," in which the Sophomore uprising of 1819 is told with flowing humor, had its inception among members of the Engine Society, and was first read at one of their post-alarm dinners in Boston...
...revolt, football fixtures similar to the Leiter Cup Series as a substitute for intercollegiate football. These would automatically restore football from its present degradation as a science to its former glory as a game. They would rob it of commercialism and heroics and give it informality, gayety and humor. They would transform it from the life work of a few to the play of the many. Minced Chickens would be an appropriate name for almost any football team Or how about Dropped Eggs? --Judge, October...
...Italian students; but never was their language in any way discourteous or defamatory. I think, Mr. Editor, that for the sake of sane judgment, which is due to all men, including Mussolini, it would be will for our critic to resort to less ambiguity in his mad search for humor. Peppino Porfilio...
...Hara next discussed humor as a profession. "It is," he said, "the most appreciated form of journalistic effort. A feature article or an editorial are soon forgotten, but jokes are remembered and constantly repeated. That is why humorists are paid so much more than other writers. The average salary of a newspaper man is about $50 a week. The average for humorous writers is from $200 to $2000 dollars a week. Only a few men get the top figure, but there are some, Ring Lardner and Will Rogers, for instance...