American wit and humor

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26	March 1996 Readings/Article How many does it take? By David Lance Goines SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Joking; Light bulbs PDF IMAGES
68-70	September 1990 Article That old “Picayune-Moon”: Off his chest, from his heart By Garrison Keillor SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Letters to the editor PDF IMAGES
27-29	January 1960 Article Good-by to the 'fifties—and good riddance: The Stuffy Decade produced some of the most wonderful nonsense in history—but why didn't anybody laugh? By Eric Frederick Goldman SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; 1945-1960; 1953-1961; Nineteen fifties PDF IMAGES
73-76	October 1951 The easy chair/Article Two points of a joke By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Regional disparities; Westerners PDF IMAGES
633-636	October 1934 The lion's mouth/Article American versus English humor By Harold George, Sir Nicolson SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; English wit and humor; National characteristics, English PDF IMAGES
558-564	April 1926 Article English pots and American kettles: A study in mutual understanding By Frank Swinnerton SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; English wit and humor; National characteristics, English; Relations PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 282	July 1922 Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; English wit and humor PDF IMAGES
433-440	March 1922 Article Exporting humor to England By Stephen Leacock SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; English wit and humor; Foreign public opinion, English; Lectures and lecturing; Scottish wit and humor PDF IMAGES
121-123	December 1921 The lion's mouth/Article The goon and his style By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Communication; Henty, G.A. (George Alfred); Cooper, James Fenimore; Style; Style, Literary PDF IMAGES
278-280	January 1919 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Aged men; American wit and humor; Boone stop (Book); Wilson, Harry Leon; Croy, Homer; Literature and the war; Ruggles of Red Gap (Book); The martial adventures of Henry and me (Book); White, William Allen PDF IMAGES
470-472	August 1916 Editor's study/Article Editor's study By Henry Mills Alden SEE ALSO: American wit and humor PDF IMAGES
864-868	November 1915 Article American aphorisms By Brander Matthews SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Aphorisms and apothegms; Franklin, Benjamin; Twain, Mark; Maxims, American; Quotations, maxims, etc.; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Style PDF IMAGES
897-900	May 1896 Article The penalty of humor By Brander Matthews SEE ALSO: Lincoln, Abraham; American wit and humor; Franklin, Benjamin; Career as humorist; Lowell, James Russell; Twain, Mark; United States. Declaration of Independence PDF IMAGES
803-805	April 1896 Editor's study/Article — (III) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Commonsense reasoning; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) PDF IMAGES
313-314	July 1893 Editor's study/Article — (II) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Characters—Comic characters; Barrie, J.M. (James Matthew); Johnston, Richard Malcolm; Women in literature PDF IMAGES
162	December 1890 Editor's drawer/Article A clever retort SEE ALSO: American wit and humor PDF IMAGES
783-797	April 1890 Article American literary comedians By Henry Clay Lukens SEE ALSO: Sweet, Alexander Edwin; American wit and humor; Shillaber, B.P. (Benjamin Penhallow); Nye, Bill; Adams, Charles Follen; Contributions in American humor; Humorists, American; Williams, J.H.; Bailey, J.M.; Burbank, Nat; Read, Opie Percival; Portraits; Newell, R.H. (Robert Henry); Burdette, Robert J. (Robert Jones) PDF IMAGES
644-645	September 1889 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; “Editor's drawer” (Harper's); Folklore; War work PDF IMAGES
481-482	February 1888 Editor's study/Article — (VI-VII) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Criticism and interpretation; Don Quixote (Book); Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de; Irving, Washington PDF IMAGES
643-644	September 1884 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Sociological aspects PDF IMAGES
857-864	November 1875 Article Legislative humors (part II) By Samuel Sullivan Cox SEE ALSO: American wit and humor PDF IMAGES
713-723	October 1875 Article Legislative humors ([part I]) By Samuel Sullivan Cox SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Webster, Daniel; Clay, Henry; Humor; Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell); Randolph, John PDF IMAGES
847-859	May 1875 Article American humor (part II) By Samuel Sullivan Cox SEE ALSO: American wit and humor PDF IMAGES
690-701	April 1875 Article American humor (part I) By Samuel Sullivan Cox SEE ALSO: American wit and humor PDF IMAGES
764-765	April 1874 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Cambridge; Hard-Shell Baptists; Harvard University; Hotels; Insurance; North Adams; Rates PDF IMAGES
790	April 1870 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Corporal punishment; Hanging; Truthfulness and falsehood PDF IMAGES
289-291	January 1870 Article The comic side of life By George W. (George Washington) Bungay SEE ALSO: American wit and humor PDF IMAGES

102-112	November 1952 New books/Review Fiction, history, fun By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: A declaration of faith (Book); American wit and humor; Wilson, Angus; Malaparte, Curzio; Dennis the menace (Book); Ferber, Edna; Allen, Frederick Lewis; Giant (Book); Grenadine's spawn (Book); Smith, H. Allen(Harry Allen); Ketcham, Hank; Hemlock and after (Book); Agar, Herbert; How to succeed in business without really trying (Book); I go Pogo (Book); Untermeyer, Louis; Rosenberg, M.; Cooper, Madison (Madison A.); Midcentury journey (Book); No but I saw the movie (Book); One-upmanship (Book); De Vries, Peter; Shikes, Ralph; Ruark, Robert Chester; Mead, Shepherd; Sironia, Texas (Book); Smith's London journal (Book); Potter, Stephen; The best cartoons from Punch (Book); The best humor annual (Book); The big change (Book); The skin (Book); Cole, W.; Kelly, Walt; Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence) PDF IMAGES
442-445	February 1917 Editor's easy chair/Review Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Fables in slang (Book); Ade, George; Humorists, American; In Babel (Book) PDF IMAGES
626-629	September 1916 Editor's easy chair/Review Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Lefevre, Edwin; Garland, Hamlin; Williams, Jesse Lynch; Remating time (Book); Short stories, American; They of the high trails (Book); Wall Street stories (Book) PDF IMAGES
310-313	July 1911 Editor's easy chair/Review Editor's easy chair By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Day, Holman; Humorists, American; The skipper and the skipped (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 328	July 1895 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Biography—Humor; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French; Emperors; McVickar, H.W.; Bangs, John Kendrick; Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 164-165	June 1895 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Boats and boating; Bangs, John Kendrick; The idiot (Book) PDF IMAGES
982	May 1895 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; American wit and humor; Carruth, Hayden; The adventures of Jones (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 649-650	September 1894 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Carlotta's intended, and other tales (Book); Stuart, Ruth McEnery; Short stories, American PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 813	October 1893 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Evening dress; farce (Book); Howells, William Dean PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 165	June 1893 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Coffee and repartee (Book); Bangs, John Kendrick PDF IMAGES
492	February 1889 Editor's study/Review — (VI) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: American books abroad; American wit and humor; Canon (Literature); Humorists, American; Twain, Mark; Mark Twain's library of humor (Book) PDF IMAGES

657	September 1898 The drawer/Poem To the editor of any comic paper By H. Dewey Browne SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Newspaper editors PDF IMAGES
326	January 1898 Editor's drawer/Poem The jokes that I think of too late By George Horton SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Verbal ability PDF IMAGES

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