Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shame on Dancer-Painter Losch's prankish first husband (British Socialite Edward F. W. James), who, Miss Losch swears, aged her six years for the benefit of Who's Who in the Theatre and his own husbandly humor...
Elsewhere in a world whose humor had turned to New Yorker sophistication (which Ade liked), and to the staccato gag-making of the Red Skeltons, Jack Bennys and Bob Hopes (which he disliked), George Ade was an almost forgotten name. Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that Humorist Bob Benchley had to repair to the Stork Club to forget, after hearing a CBS announcer tell about the death of "the Indiana writer, George...
Copper-Bellied Corpse. The American folk who emerge from this lore are robust, daredevil, imaginative, fond of broad humor, tender love, great deeds, crude, rude, sometimes full of noble sentiment, sometimes intolerant. They glorify outlaws (Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid), poke fun at woodsmen (Mike Fink, Davy Crockett), sanctify Johnny Appleseed. The U.S. gift for tall talk is flaunted in Sven, the Hundred Proof Irish man, and speeches by General Buncombe ("Sir, we want elbow room - the continent, the whole continent - and nothing but the continent"). The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted...
...Comic Line. Crocodile is little known in the U.S.; few copies leave Russia. But it is more important than any other humorous magazine is elsewhere. LIFE-sized, it is the Soviet Punch. Its prewar circulation of 500,000 is now down to 100,000. Most of its cartoons are political or military, and most of its humor is about as subtle as a sledge hammer...
Repetition does not breed reward in this case. With continual emphasis on the same theme the humor palls somewhat but the authors have introduced a few novel twists which keep one guessing most of the time...