Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...outset was not even animate, create a situation the acting success of which it is all but impossible to surmise. But there is no doubt about the fact that, as a reading play, it holds the attention with a firm grip, that it is full of action, humor, and skillfully maintained suspense, and that, as we have come to expect in Mr. MacKaye's work, the lines contain, especially towards the close, much poetical thought and fine imaginative expression. Finally, the drama is marked by a quite extraordinary intensity,-an intensity which not only permeates and broadens the symbolism...
...general the best method is to have clearly in mind what you are going to say, and then let the words and the gestures take care of themselves. Three helps to effectiveness in public speaking are wide reading and familiarity with the Bible, the judicious introduction of humor, and above all, earnestness. Earnestness is of paramount importance, because no audience will believe a man who does not believe in himself
...cover the ground. The present writer has been obliged to call in the aid of musical and artistic friends, for whose judgement he is grateful, but not responsible. It is reported that the song may be burlesque, but it is not music; that the pictures may have humor, but have no art. Let us say, then, that the football song is excellent burlesque and that the pictures are very funny to those who can see it. In dealing with the alleged literature one ought to feel on firmer ground. The editorial is as clever as usual, and more profound than...
...first presented in London in 1614, and for several years afterward was one of the popular places of the London stage. It is characteristic of Jonson's style, both in its realism and its character portrayal, in which it is especially strong. Its aim is to present in humorous and burlesque fashion the life and customs of the people. Like many other plays of the period, "Bartholomew Fair", contains many references to contemporary writers and playwrights, and the customary humorous flings at the Puritans and other strict sects. Though there is a fair plot to the play, it depends...
...class-mates of mine "Out" for the Lampoon, used regularly to devote a portion of each day, rain or shine, to helping each other think up jokes. Apparently times have not changed, not the ways of candidates or editors in them. Yet jokes, like poets, are born, not made. Humor means, if anything, an irrepressible, sensitiveness to incongruities, and contradictions in things, unspirited, be it added, by any immediate desire to correct them. Its expression is a revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial in accent. The joke...