Word: humourist
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...another Expos teacher who doubles as a humourist for the Globe, Sanford Kreisberg, joked that he had learned "to be very kind to less talented students-because ten years from now they may be your editor...
...hour work week, Writer Feldkamp has added time for editing the late humourist Will Cuppy's bestseller, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, and the forthcoming, How to Get from January to December...
TIME's "People" department of the July 17 issue mentions our Canadian economist-humourist Stephen Leacock and the rescue he was involved in recently. Though your staff usually get the background for their stories pretty well, they missed out on this For early in his writing career, in his volume Sunshine Sketches, Leacock dealt with the small-town doings of his home in Ontario. His yarn of the sinking of the Mariposa Belle with a picnic crowd aboard has the same essence of humour as the real affair did last week. The Mariposa Belle starts to sink and finally...
...humourist was a character painter because peculiarities of character were generally laughable. Ben Jonson was a humourist but he was especially a caricaturist and must be criticised as such. Caricature is a legitimate method of getting effect by overloading. This method is especially evident in the three following plays: "Cynthia's Revels," "The Poetaster" and "Every Man out of his Humour...
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