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Last March Usborne suggested the mysterious question to London's Spectator as a topic for its Competition, a resolutely droll contest in which readers submit humorous essays and verse on set subjects. Spectator readers sailed off on a sea of whimsey, concocting hypotheses. One suggested that the beast cut its paw on a Coca-Cola bottle, another thought the lion was a character actor from a traveling troupe of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion...
American", which darts from the observation that "the American was always taking a short cut to freedom, a short cut to fortune, a short cut to learning, and a short cut to heaven," to the professorial whimsey of "He [the American] knew that through pleasures and palaces though he might roam, be it ever so humble there was no place like home...
...highly personal for the moment, I was particularly struck by two of the three poems contributed by Seymour Lawrence (the chief editorial hand behind "Wake")--the ones entitled "City Nun" and "A Love Song." I also might mention that I found a little piece of wit, charm, and whimsey by E.E. Cummings called "A Little Girl Named I" the most entertaining thing in the entire magazine. It is lonely in its modernistie company: but it is wonderful...
...best of these jingles are such a neat blend of humor, whimsey and corn that they seemed to come from the pen of an old master. Not so. The nearest thing in Burma-Vita to an old master is the man who started them, and the company as well-Allan Gilbert Odell, 42, the athletic vice president and sales manager of the company. He devoted so much of his youth to basketball and football that he acquired a thorough interest in liniments. By the time he graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1925, he decided to produce and market...
...aspect of the common man's struggle to achieve a larger degree of human dignity." Statements like these lead the reader to expect a thorough study of manners literature, its relation to and effect on American mores and ideals. What the reader gets, instead, is a short, delightfully styled, whimsey-packed hour's entertainment. But "Learning How to Behave" falls short of being the integrated study of convention that one inevitably feels the research and author's background made possible...