Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around the corner. Being endowed with exaggerated poetic imagination, the nation got a mild case of "crisis stomach" worrying about bombing and gassing, about Mr. Chamberlain and what would happen after the war. But through it all ran a thin wire of pluck, which showed itself best in humor. Those were the days when a West End druggist put a placard in his window: "Bismuth as usual during altercations...
Radcliffe, Harvard's little sister, is the traditional butt of Harvard humor. The typical Radcliffeite is pictured as a bony female wearing flat-heeled shoes, and horn-rimmed glasses, and carrying half a dozen textbooks; usually her slip is showing. But the vote of the class of 1940 seemed to belie that conception--or else last year's Seniors liked them that way. Radcliffe is conveniently close, the girls are generally more intelligent than at other colleges, and they don't mind riding subways or sitting in the balcony. At the beginning of the year the Radcliffe Houses hold...
...similar critical work for European culture. But Brooks's re-creation of the human side of New England, of the lives, characters, appearance, crotchets of his heroes, and of the landscape through which they moved, is dramatically crowd ed with people and characterization, incident and humor as are only a few great novels...
...again-and silently depart. . . . Super-sleuthing finally solved the mystery just before last midnight. Jerome Glasser, treasurer of a large corporation, revealed that ... his company has been doing business with the Nazi household. 'That sign,' said Glasser, ' . . . can mean only one thing-somebody wants a Good Humor...
Ivor Richards' first public appearance in the U. S. was in 1931 at Harvard, where he arrived straight from two years' teaching at Tsing Hua University, Peking. His rumpled clothes, backswept curls, glinting, slightly Oriental eyes and catching humor interested undergraduates, but what interested them more was his exploratory teaching. A trained psychologist, Richards had discovered not only that the same piece of writing rarely got the same response from any two readers, but that astounding misinterpretations were quite common. His practical exercises in reading English literature correctly were as fresh to Harvard-and as popular-as they...