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...orator he is a failure, but as a man of action he is "a national asset." Two un-Irish features stand out in his physiognomy and character; he has an egg-shaped head with eyes deep set and far apart; he is "an Irishman without a sense of humor...
...broiling sun and attacked that most revered of institutions the prohibition joke. Lest they continue to merit the reputation for over-hasty action, once gained by speed on the trigger and again confirmed by gubernatorial impeachments, the Oklahoma have, however, considerately buried their protest against this kind of humor in the body of a speech in defense of prohibition, delivered before the National Editorial Association...
...creating respect for all laws and especially obedience to the Volstead Act is not in the least convincing to those people who doubt the value of law in general and prohibition statutes in particular; yet it is this class that must be persuaded to discard "wet" humor. The only needed reason for discarding the prohibition joke is obviously that it is no longer funny. While the real arguments may not have been stated it is, nevertheless, surprising that the cultivated Eastern editors who have gone on blithely printing reams of "wet" criticisms should hear the first sharp objections to that...
...that the spell is broken it is barely possible that the crusade will extend to other jokes that have long outlived their humor. When Pat and Mike and the optimist and the pessimists beloved of last years Seniors, pass into that profound rest which their long services have earned for them. It is conceivable that after-dinner speakers will be more popular, that humorous magazines will actually be funny; and even that class smokers may, become enjoyable. At least one fondly hopes that others will fellow the lead of the Oklahoma...
There was little that was sensational about Mr. Russell's lecture. It was featured by clarity and profundity of thought and sprinkled with the gently cynical humor for which he is noted. Mr. Russell began by asserting the necessity for some sort of authority in education, and then spoke briefly of he various mediums by which this authority had been and would always, presumably, be exercised. These mediums he classified as the state, the church, the schoolmaster, and the parent. He spoke of the inadequacy of each to exercise the authority which it possessed: for each, he declared, had some...