Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Food, especially pudding, inspires British schoolboys to a "peculiarly revolting form of humor" (e.g., maggots-in-milk-rice pudding; cats' eyes-in-phlegm-sago pudding). For their headmasters they have many names: the Boss, the Chief, the Dox, the Twig, the Pot (also Jerry). A chambermaid is a skivvy, a woman, a hag. Tea, coffee or cocoa is hogwash or pigswill. A boy who studies hard, swots, is treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group...
...Male Animal. James Thurber's in sane humor turns a play-that-is-no-play into a gay evening (TIME...
...hair-brushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire of no mean acidity. It may be a 20th-century, streamlined job--this "Pinocchio"--but the old familiar tale is robbed of none of its genial moralizing and pathetic humor...
Although Donald MacD. D. Thurber's feature article. "The Truth About '40 will omit any discussion of sex, it will tell everything else about the class, and its 16 pages will be liberally spiced with literary and photographic humor, Donnell declared...
...Yearling, Author Rawlings' short stones deal with such Florida crackers as starvation-haunted farmers, hunters, trappers, fishermen, moonshiners. Readers of The Yearling know her sharp ear for dialect, her landscapist's feelings for the scrub country. Her short stories show an equal talent for high-spirited folk humor...