Word: humoured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phrase, "the almighty dollar," all these things he was. For delicacy and precision of style he has few superiors in America. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Alhambra" show a grace and beauty that is carefully wrought, while "A History Of New York" is full of deft humour and sly winks. But the Vagabond will not go deeper into the subject, art is long and time is fleeting. He must turn to other subjects and allow Professor Mathiessen to carry on for him in Harvard 6 today at 10 o'clock...
...action he found the key to Hamlet's soul." And when he falls short of his customary excellence as a critic, as indeed he does in his estimate of Falstaff, the reason is still the same, that which his own nature lacked, in this case a real sense of humour...
...believe the clairvoyance of "Just Imagine," which is now playing at the University. There will be marriages arranged by the state; there will be resurrections of the dead; there will be an air line to Mars. Only one thing is immutable. The popular songs and the wit and humour of fifty years hence will not have improved...
...denying to the age with which he is dealing, in this first part of his work, any claims to humour as we know it today, he leaves the reader with the impression that the book is but the foundation for that which is to follow. Let us hope for an early appearance of Part II: we have little interest in the "humour" of early times. Chaucer is the single exception, the one writer whose work stands...
...heart of the volume is M. Cazamian's contention that English humour is derived in part from the French. He finds, in Chaucer, support for his case, a case which does not in any way deny to English humour its peculiarly native quality. "The sap of rich realism and supple shrewdness which nourished his humour was of native racy flow. He announces the breadth of the Elizabethan drama and the subtlety of modern English humorists...