Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always the teacher's dream, and Professor Allport recently demonstrated his skill at combining them by presenting a Social Relations 1a lecture on Crowd Psychology in terms of a revival meeting once held in Boston by the eminently practical Aimee Semple MacPherson. Even the professional resenters of classroom humor avowed it was better than the comics, but, unobtrusively, each step in Aimee's spellbinding was made to correspond to a formidable chunk of psychological verbiage...
They had surrendered not only rank, but swank. Like all West Point fourth-classmen, they answered to titles like "Mister Dumbjohn" and endured upper-classmen's humor. But as soldiers, most wore their ribbons. They were the gaudiest plebes in the Academy's history. On his grey dress coat, Cadet Clark sported pilot's wings, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 13 clusters, and an ETO ribbon with six stars...
...wacky freshness in the idea of Finian is by no means lost in the working out. The book has humor, gaiety, moments of charm, a few neat satiric flings. But it also has a good deal of fairly maddening cuteness that creeps into some of the lyrics as well; it chronically follows up good lines with bad ones; it blunts its satire with buffoonery; and from elfin antics it suddenly plummets down to outhouse humor...
...Senate's good humor (see above) did not last long...
Russia's purges are traditionally grim affairs. The conspicuous difference between the current nationwide"houseclean-ing" and others is the sprightly (and skin-crawling) humor with which the tares of the malefactors have been exhibited in the Soviet press. Thus the toughest sentence is doubly justified, since the defendants have been proved not only criminal but ridiculous...