Word: humors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three Yardlings signed up for magic, two for pigeon raising, three for palmistry, one for polemies, one for genealogy, one for the study of humor, and three for numismatics, the science of coin collecting. Ceramics or the study of pottery, with two enthusiasts, is one of the latest subjects to appear on the sheets in the Union...
Copey's readings often contain a generous amount of humor, and have come to be a traditional event of the Freshman year. He hopes to be able to continue the annual readings until he has passed the century mark...
...Life Begins at College" the Ritz Brothers again present their particular brand of humor to the University's theatre audiences...
Tracing this distinction from the feudal period to the totalitarian state, with a vast display of scholarship, innumerable quotations, occasional flashes of bitter humor, Dr. Vagts includes two brilliant sections that might well be reprinted as separate volumes. One is a provocative analysis of the pre-War German army, its officers split into snobbish cliques, undermining the plans of their rivals without regard for the cost of human life. The other is a soberly inspiring appraisal of Washington as a military genius who is almost unique in history in that he had no militaristic ambitions. Net conclusion...
Christopher Morley's first 41 books have been notable for affable after-dinner humor, a slightly ponderous display of undergraduate learning, a unique brand of lecture-platform whimsy. His 42nd, The Trojan Horse, is a scrambled modernization of the tale of Troy, complete with radio broadcasts, scenes in night clubs, pacifist demonstrations. In it Troilus is cast as a kind of star quarterback; the siege is a cross between a football game and a marathon dance; Cressida is a modern young woman whose wisecracks seem not quite so up-to-date; Pandarus is a Wall Street sophisticate; the Horse...