Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...himself, the thief of fire from heaven, into a palaeozoic Dr. Franklin who amused himself with electrical experiments? The truth is that so long as the nature of man is dual, so long as he is an animal as well as a spiritual being, the element of humor evolved by the contrast puts the heroic out of countenance. That old story fathered upon Cromwell, of his being found on his knees by a Puritan preacher whom he told he was 'seeking the Lord,' when in fact he was seeking the corkscrew which had dropped under the table, is a good...
Alphonse Daudet has everything that Zola has not, wit, humor, gaiety and facility. Zola himself said of him that he possessed every quality except strength, and that he gained as he went on. For many years he was under the influence of Dickens, and while under his influhe wrote Delobelle, who was formed after one of the characters of Dickens. In all his qualities he was very variable, and one could never know when he would be at his best and when at his worst...
Eight papers are issued fortnightly. The Yale Courant is composed of twelve pages of fiction and verse. The Yale Record is a humorous publication of about none pages. The Red and Blue, published at the University of Pennsylvania, is a fourteen page literary paper. The Columbia Spectator has some seventeen pages of news, fiction and humor. The Bowdoin students publish the Orient, a literary magazine and newspaper of fourteen pages. The Dartmouth contains fourteen pages of college news, edited from the senior class. The Wesleyan Argus has about twelve pages divided into fiction and news, and is edited by members...
Chief of caricaturists is A. B. Frost. Full of humor himself, he catches the idea of the author and always succeeds in making the situation a little funnier than the author had conceived it. Besides his caricatures, his sketches of Negro and camp life are not excelled by any in sincerity and genuineness...
...Chaillu spoke most informally. His narrative overflowed with striking anecdotes, amusing details, and startling bits of information. He showed a great sense of humor and his witticisms added much to the enjoyment of his talk. He was even quite ready to imitate the various cries of the animals he described. The charm of the address lay largely in his personality, and any reproduction of it is impossible...