Word: humors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DIARY OF VASLAV NIJINSKY- Edited by Romola Nijinsky-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Last intelligible words of the great dancer, written in the year before his commitment to the insane asylum, making a grisly study which occasional overtones of schizophrenic humor do not relieve...
Next was Marshall Wayne, Olympic high diving champion 1936, and also National champion. To add humor to their exhibitions of steel nerve. Bill Lewin, self-admittedly the world's funniest water comedian, does a few turns of his own. With Art Phillips, nine years holder of the Canadian and British Empire diving titles, he does a complicated dive that is supposed to be representative of a man riding a horse...
...satire of rotund Art Young is gentler, his humor more pointed, and his following is a generation older and more devoted than Grosz's, but he too was tried for sedition during the War when the editors of the Masses (Art Young, John Reed, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman) went on trial for "obstructing the draft." Art Young fell asleep at the trial, did a self-caricature entitled Art Young on Trial for His Life which was later bid for by the prosecuting attorney. Born in Monroe, Wis. 70 years ago, Satirist Art Young has been sensitive to but never...
...patronized a vital, vivid, unexpected character who wrote almost as well as he did and who had a spontaneous liveliness that matched his dry wit. Marian, familiarly known as "Clover," rattled on in her letters to her father, with all the garrulousness Adams ascribed to her, but with a humor for which Adams did not give her credit, about their visits to great London houses, Washington scandals, political intrigues, trips to Spain, Italy, Switzerland. She was less impressed than John Adams' grandson by many of the famed figures they met. Adams, for instance, described the English poet Richard Monckton...
...after-dinner speakers tend to look lonely and sallow printed as poetry on a wide-margined page. Not So Deep As a Well includes all of Dorothy Parker's poems except a few that she did not wish reprinted, reveals her expert craftsmanship, the narrow range of her humor, her keen eye for fleecy feminine affectations. It also reveals that her major contribution to U. S. humor has not been such jingles as her celebrated observation that "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses," but her relentless parodying of those mournful laments on lost love that...