Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most of the great leaders and reformers who left an impress upon their own and subsequent generations were not noted for their sense of humor. Moses, Mahomet and Jesus . . . are outstanding examples. The great figures in public life today are, on the whole, very serious-minded...
...Litany of Washington Street," ("the song and poetry street of every United States town"), is full of provocative patriotism spiced with humor...
...second etching portrays a more personal scene in 1798. At a birthday party in honor of Fox, the Duke of Norfolk proposed such vehement toasts in favor of Parliamentary reform that he was dismissed by the Crown. This, too, Gillray has touched with insight and humor...
This article of yours gives the desired information and it is, in a brief readable form, definite data of genuine human interest, with touches of humor here and there which make the whole world kin, e'en tho they dwell in marble halls...
...Soglow ambitions are modest. He confines himself to vignettes. Sometimes they are smokily morbid, but the artist is more often impelled to bitter Hogarthian humor. As a regular contributor to the New Masses, he was (in the March issue) allowed to lampoon the staff of that earnest, proletarian monthly as a ridiculous, sour and impoverished quartet, weary of life and thought. O. Soglow is a signature frequently seen also in the blithely capitalistic New Yorker. There he is the Harpo Marx of art, maintaining a pungent silence with untitled comic strip exercises in pantomime, often verging on the vulgar. Recently...