Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tradition has it that Oliver Wendell Holmes, the younger, used to attend burlesque shows regularly. Possibly the performers of his day were able to realize the potentialities for earthy, uninhibited humor inherent in the Burlesque medium, or perhaps then the strippers really answered the ancient ery of the bald-headed row to "take it off," but whatever attracted the great man to the Scoally Square theatricals is no longer there...
...show reaches the climax of her performance, the management turns a protecting dark blue light on the proceedings, wrapping the star in an indigo robe thick enough to confuse even the sharpest eyes; and one can never tell whether he is seeing the real thing or not. The humor is uninhibited only to the extent that it would be exceedingly embarrassing to take a girl to hear it, even for laughs. At intervals a motley band of women of all sizes and shapes troops back and forth across the stage, each with as much skill and expression as a Russian...
...maneuvered through London's blazing streets for vantage shots of the blitz. Gallo is a politically indispensable young man who has somehow made himself welcome at the headquarters of all of Brazil's political parties. Abdel, an Upper Egypt man with the Egyptians' fine feeling for humor and sense of the ridiculous, is master of the endless minutiae of publishing and distributing TIME abroad...
...Irwin Edman says wistfully, and perhaps a little apologetically: "Some day, if I can overcome a sense of humor and a sense of doubt, I shall try to write such a systematic tome as professional philosophers require, or as is expected of a professional thinker by the general public." He is obviously in no hurry...
...rate of 12 minutes per penny, or a whole hour for a nickel. When the flag pops up in the glass meterhead at the end of an hour, the parker must either move to another meter or pay a $1 fine, with fines for subsequent offences depending upon what humor the judge...