Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Again we look at the long list of names and smile with satisfaction; we even laugh, for, lo, the "King of Bulgaria" has drawn a room in the top of Matthews. What need has he of Adrianople now? It is such a serious improvement that we have a right to laugh...
...Mitigating Circumstance" concerns a freakish motor-boat which gives its owner two unhappy hours and affords the reader an excuse for a few smiles. Perhaps if the humor were not so self-conscious the reader might laugh outright occasionally...
...genuinely amusing and the "teaching" of the play sanely convincing. Barring a little uncertainty in some of the characterization and an inevitable sense of incongruity when the Faun first appears, the play is a genuine success for those who attend the theatre to think as well as to laugh and to enjoy as well as applaud...
...boastful as some Yale Game numbers have been, but is as ready to make high-spirited fun of our own failures as of those of our guests. No one but a man without humor could find anything to irritate him and every man can find something to laugh at. I hope the boys who sell the paper on the way to the Field will do a rushing business. They are not speculators so every purchaser will get full value for his money...
...humor of a one-sided kind, which only persons of a certain class can enjoy, while others must not and cannot but regard it s insulting. Humor which depends for its power on injury to one class of men at Harvard, in order that the others may laugh, is not a help towards the broadness and religious toleration in which all Harvard men take pride. There are many Roman Catholics at Harvard. To them the Pope is a sacred representative of Christ. He is called Christ's vicar upon earth. To speak of their great spiritual master as the verse...