Word: humorists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same article, frequently prophesies happenings that are mutually exclusive. She has been spectacularly right & wrong simultaneously on everything that has occurred in Europe for a dozen years. On her own staff she wars perpetually with bearded, ancient Georges de la Fouchardiére, L'Oeuvre's political humorist. A witty contemporary once said that Fouchardiére "daily executes on page two the dangerous maniac who operates on page three...
Camping out while they worked, the amateur carpenters were helped only by James Babcock of the Maintenance Department, who acted in the capacities of guide, mentor, advisor, foreman and humorist...
Scully refused to be fired, denied that Rosanoff had the authority. When pretty Mrs. Marjorie Reuman, Rosanoff's daughter, arrived to take over, she found the humorist encamped in his disputed office, determined to stay there until his term expired in 1942. One-legged Mr. Scully had fortified his position with 300-lb. Pete Ladjimi, who once served 30 days for assault & battery upon the person of ex-Champion Wrestler Gus Sonnenberg...
...painting, preferably a high-priced one, he would mutter. "Pffft! Such crude pigments! My, such a stencil technique-brr-let me get away!" He stopped other gallery-goers to tell them he was the world's greatest artist, passed out handbills describing himself as "Mesmerist-Prophet and Mystic, Humorist Galore, Ex All Round Athletic Sportsman (to 1889), Scientist supreme: all ologies, Ex Fancy amateur Dancer. . . ." He wrote crank letters to the newspapers. His letterhead: "Mahatma Dr. Louis M. Eilshemius, M.A. etc., Mightiest Mind and Wonder of the Worlds, Supreme Parnassian and Grand Transcendant Eagle of Art." His paintings...
Proverbially, every humorist is at heart a melancholy satirist. Not so Alan Alexander Milne. "It is assumed too readily," he protests, "that a writer who makes his readers laugh would really prefer to make them cry. . . ." Much of the charm of Milne's Autobiography comes from his honest admission that entertainment...