Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swinburne in prose often displays what he most lacked in poetry-restraint and humor. His method was deadpan parody. According to Wilson's preface, his targets included Victorian bluenoses, stuffy fellow poets, and French romantic novelists. In one such parody of an imagined French historical novelist's handling of Victorian England, the Bishop of London gallantly seduces the heroine in a London cab. In another, Queen Victoria confesses a humiliating affair with a commoner. "It wasn't a prince," she sobs, "not even Sir R. Peel. It was one . . .called Wordsworth who recited to me verses from...
...good humor extended to the re-election of House and Senate officers. Republicans routinely put up Leader Charles Halleck to contest Massachusetts' John McCormack for Speaker. McCormack, of course, won on a straight party-line vote, in his acceptance speech jokingly noted that he had been behind in the early returns but emerged victorious when "the Democratic strongholds came...
...there is even an aluminum plaque to commemorate an event that Palmer would just as soon forget. In 1961. gambling for an eagle on the hole, he hit four balls out of bounds, wound up with a twelve. "What happened?" asked a solicitous friend. Replied Palmer, with remarkable good humor: "I missed a putt for an eleven...
...Morrison assumed again the conservative stance that helped him defeat Fred Seaton, President Eisenhower's Interior Secretary. "Nebraska has the lowest per capita tax rate of any of the 50 states," he said. "I would like to see it remain so." Moreover, he had not lost the humble humor that makes him popular. Interrupting his speech to quaff a cup of water, he quipped: "I was raised in Kansas and never completely recovered from being...
Last week was a big one for the man who sings them that way. Quite recently, Allan Sherman was an obscure TV producer who liked to entertain friends by singing familiar songs with lyrics marinated in Jewish humor. Then, during the fall, he made a record called My Son, the Folk Singer, which has sold a million copies and made a world-famous nut of him. Last week, on the day that his new album. My Son, the Celebrity, was released, he gave a concert in Carnegie Hall...