Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, 47, was born in London, son of a U. S.-born chairman of Anglo-American Oil Co. Dapper, well-nosed, greying, Bliss is rated as a modernist with a sense of humor. Last month Manhattan heard the world premiere of a Bliss piano concerto, showy, noisy, built for big-muscled virtuosos and played (with the Philharmonic-Symphony under Sir Adrian Boult) by just such a pounder: a British onetime prodigy whose concert name is now simply Solomon...
...frontier writers. With few exceptions, gold brought them West. Gold brought the sophisticated, cosmopolitan population, the wealth and leisure that make readers, writers and publishers. Because gold was elusive, restlessness and skepticism became a familiar literary tradition. Because male Argonauts outnumbered female twelve to one, traditions of rough-&-ready humor and violence grew apace...
...belong, and their meaning thus felt. To the seniors, the Class of '39, who march from Holworthy to the Sever Quadrangle this morning, four years are expressed only in the alternate silence and laughter flowing through the line. To-day they are singularly joyous at a climax of good humor, for tomorrow they break up to be reabsorbed in the currents of the world...
...believe any English teacher ever lived who could read the Lady of the Lake as he did. Tall, dour in appearance, Mr. Hutchins loves a good game of golf and wields a wicked garden spade, and best of all, has a swell sense of humor...
Gogarty ("Gideon Ouseley") and his medico pals soon discovered what was wrong with Anatomy-"it lacked humor." They worked hard to make up the deficiency. Their workshops were fat Mr. Golly's bar, the Hay Hotel (an all-night cabbies' eating joint), Mrs. Mack's brothel. Here, on pawnshop financing, they galloped their horseplay, sang bawdy limericks, chummed with Jenny, the circus tumbler, Liverpool Kate, "the well-known and popular epileptic," Piano Mary, a neurotic socialist whose propaganda was Shakespearean readings in Mrs. Mack's brothel...