Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trial lawyer with side interests in Democratic politics. Writing poetry was another sideline. His friend, Publisher William Marion Reedy of Reedy's Mirror, refused several of his contributions, but accepted from one "Lester Ford" some subjective epitaphs on imaginary dwellers in an imaginary Illinois town called Spoon River. This "joke" was the beginning of the Spoon River Anthology. But before Spoon River waxed famous, Poet Masters adopted another pseudonym, "Elmer Chubb," and contributed to Reedy's Mirror many fine-sounding sonnets chanting the praises of William Jennings Bryan, the Anti-Saloon League and Mary Garden. When critics took the Spoon...
...audiences go, there is little difference between the two countries. A flat joke is a flat joke wherever it is. Of course, these cocktail jokes in "Oh, Please!" would have to be changed to transport the show abroad, but aside from that it could go just about...
...interviewer asked not too fact-fully, perhaps, whether the Englishman was as slow to appreciate a joke as be is reported...
...absolutely not!" declared Miss Lillie, not without considerable vehemence. "They can see a joke just as well and just as quickly as an American. One country's ideas of another country are often quite amasing. You very seldom see the American's idea of a typical Englishman with his monocle, or, for that matter, the Englishman's idea of a typical American with his chewing gum. Both have their short comings, but one doesn't mind them if one possesses a sense of humor, does...
...political cartoon is a sort of picture editorial. The narrative cartoon is by far the easiest form. The cartoonist can work a series around the adventures of certain characters, like the Gumps or the Joneses, or use a joke as the basis of the cartoon as Bud Fisher does so often in "Mutt and Jeff." These methods are comparatively simple...