Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicity department of "College Humor" has advised us that Dr. Henry van Dyke '73 has been "awarded the distinction" of being chosen for the Collegiate Hall of Fame in the current issue of that magazine, where his picture will be featured along with those of the most prominent co-ed on the Floating University, a Junior Prom Queen of the Middle West, an All-American football player and other notables. We can appreciate the desire of the editors to make their Hall of Fame as representative as possible; but in their choice of Dr. van Dyke they have gone outside...
...editor, but pointed out that Soviet Russia is too big to be bluffed, even by the "World's Greatest Newspaper." The only practicable means of getting out Soviet news is that employed by Walter Duranty of the New York Times. Day after day, with infinite patience and good humor, he files despatches which cost his paper a great deal, and only occasionally contain really big news. By carrying something every day and ingratiating himself after long years with the Soviet government, patient Walter Duranty is able to get past the censor all the news of Russia that really matters...
...NATIVE ARGOSY-Morley Callaghan- Scribner's ($2.50) Last year Morley Callaghan of Canada wrote Strange Fugitive, and was promptly likened to Ernest Hemingway of Michigan for his brusque, compact style, intently modern. His characters, of middling low mentality; his incidents, grim and macabre in their humor, smacked of contacts as a newspaper reporter. This year Author Callaghan furthers his reputation by a collection of stories, one of which-far from the best-was included in The American Caravan (arty anthology). A better story is entitled "A Predicament," and concerns a young priest disturbed at confessional by a drunk...
...truth it is, indeed, but rarely that the Vagabond has the good fortune to encounter humor of this type: certainly it would scarcely be appropriate for example in the echoing halls where a bronze Emerson stares through the dusky gloom. And, lest some should say that he has descended wholly from the "quality group" literarily or intellectually he will hasten to suggest the following lectures to those whom let us say the spring, has made less frivolously minded...
...have written. Add a weeping willow tree, and the late great Anatole France has made a Chinese sage of Rabelais-scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture before Argentine audiences (in 1909). But the Bishops of Buenos Aires, having heard of Rabelais' earthy humor, and having heard of the impious Anatole France, denounced them both. The pious dared not listen to the dean of the Academic. "There was not a soul in the boxes and not one woman in the house. In all, three hundred baldpates. It was funereal." The lecture tour was salvaged...