Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...impossible; it has made even more popular than usual that feature of every properly appointed household--the Cosmopolitan. From the delicate and tactful "take-off" on the late lamented Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the masterpiece of cartoonist art entitled "Woodruina" Lampy scores a decisive victory in the realm of humor. Of all forms of wit burlesque is perhaps the hardest to carry off. Nine times out of ten it falls flat simply because it is overdone. But the editors of the Lampoon knew when to stop, and therein lies their virtue. We understand that this number of the Lampoon...
...setting of "Erasmus Montanus" is laid in a small town in Denmark in the 18th century. The play is not only remarkable as a series of pictures of continental life of the time, but it also treats of a situation of universal interest with the unsurpassed humor that has made Holberg famous...
...Lampoon is pointed out as a shining example of sustained humor. With heartfelt gratitude for its Transcript number, it may yet be said that all do not agree. There is, too, a certain difference in the task of editing a daily compared with that of publishing a fortnightly or monthly. And it may be noted that a bad joke is only a slight incident in one's mental life, but what one considers a bad editorial leaves a deep irritation. One good joke wipes out the memory of a thousand bad ones...
...Odell Shepard's masterly study, "The poetry of War", puts us all in his debt. Critical insight, and learning enlivened by touches of humor, the artist's feeling for the inevitable phrase--all these qualities combine to make it an enduring contribution to literature. The truth about war, Dr. Shepard points out, is not to be found in Othello's "Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!" but rather in Falstaff's "food for powder, food for powder." And this is the truth that the poets of the present war have expressed. In his "Dead Boche" Robert Graves writes...
...clapped into a limousine" and "by dint of theatre parties and champagne", is amusing enough and well fit for the latest parody on the Harvard Magazine, even when we do not consider that the author meant it to be serious. It gives very good proof that the unintentional humor is the best...