Humorous, partly autobiographical and unusually experimental in style " Cal " has been regarded as one of Gold's strongest stories.

Humorous stories of children at play also populated the series.

He spent nearly twenty years as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald, but he is best known for his stories about early California life, many of which were collected in his 1880 book Romance of California Life: Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous ( New York: Baker, Pratt & Co., 1880 ).

In 1906, Albert Edward Smith and James Stuart Blackton at Vitagraph took the next step, and in their Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, what appear to be cartoon drawings of people move from one pose to another.

Humorous tombstone s in front of a house in northern California.

In addition to the interpretation events offered by NFA and AFA, the NFL also sponsors Humorous Interpretation.

The first ( photographed ) animated projection was " Humorous Phases of Funny Faces " ( 1906 ) by newspaper cartoonist J. Stuart Blackton, one of the co-founders of the Vitagraph Company arrived.

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According to a 60 Minutes profile, he is also the most quoted living man in The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations.

Humorous touches can be found in the characters, enemies, items, back story, locations, levels, signs, and animations.

Humorous exchanges also take place between Narnian animals.

Humorous multiple choice questionnaires made on the internet since often featured an " Obi-Wan Kenobi " option.

Humorous banter between the host and the performers between games is also sometimes featured.

Roger & Me was filmed under the working title A Humorous Look at How General Motors Destroyed Flint, Michigan.

She regularly entered public speaking competitions, placing first in the " Humorous Interpretation " category at the National District Tournament two years running.

Humorous and sentimental images of children and animals were popular, as were increasingly elaborate shapes, decorations and materials.

Humorous Interpretation and Lincoln-Douglas debate were added as main events at Nationals, expanding the number of opportunities available to students.

The NFL National Tournament continues to be held annually, featuring competition in Policy Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, Legislative Debate, Public Forum ( Ted Turner ) Debate, United States Extemporaneous Speaking, International Extemporaneous Speaking, Original Oratory, Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Commentary, Impromptu Speaking, Prose Reading, Poetry Reading, Expository Speaking and Storytelling.

Humorous writers were also popular and included Seba Smith and Benjamin P. Shillaber in New England and Davy Crockett, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson J. Hooper, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, and George Washington Harris writing about the American frontier.

* April 8-The King's Company inaugurate their new theatre, the first Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, with a revival of Fletcher's The Humorous Lieutenant.

* Gilman, S., Contributions to Literature ; Descriptive, Critical, Humorous, Biographical, Philosophical, and Poetical, Crosby, Nichols, and Company, ( Boston ), 1856.

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Humorous in style, the show was particularly noted for its satirical sketches.

And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.

The novels and stories like Pohl's Drunkard's Walk ( 1960 ), with the focus on adventure and with the dystopian elements only a dim background -- in this case an uneasy, overpopulated world in which the mass of people do uninteresting routine jobs while a carefully selected, university-trained elite runs everything -- are in all likelihood as numerous as dystopias.

I had told her enough about myself to offset somewhat the damaging stories that had appeared in local newspapers after my little adventure in Marshall Field & Co..

Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.

Campbell proposed that the heroic mythological stories from culture to culture followed a similar underlying pattern, starting with the " call to adventure ", followed by a hazardous journey, and eventual triumph.

Another success was the Fun Section of D. C. Thomson's Scottish weekly newspaper The Sunday Post, which included the two strips Oor Wullie and The Broons by lead artist Dudley Watkins, as well as other funnies and various puzzles and adventure stories.

This gave R. D. Low, the head of children's publications at D. C. Thomson at the time, the idea to create another Big Five, this time of comics intended for both boys and girls and consisting mainly of ' funnies ' and more lighthearted adventure and text stories.

Starting in the early 1930s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in Popeye, Captain Easy, Buck Rogers, Tarzan and The Adventures of Tintin.

Despite the fact that Barks had done little traveling his adventure stories often had the duck clan globe trotting to the most remote or spectacular of places.

Her work involves children's adventure stories, and fantasy, sometimes involving magic.

Contents include two long adventures, numerous adventure outlines ten stories and articles, etc.

Film critic David Thomson wrote of Hawks in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film " Far from the the meek purveyor of Hollywood forms, he always chose to turn them upside down, To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, ostensibly an adventure and a thriller, are really love stories.

Omoo was not as colorful as Typee, and readers began to realize Melville was not just producing adventure stories.

Although Infocom started out with Zork, and although the Zork world was the centerpiece of their product line throughout the Zork and Enchanter series, the company quickly branched out into a wide variety of story lines: fantasy, science-fiction, mystery, horror, historical adventure, children's stories, and others that defied categories.

It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories.

A storyteller from a very young age, the first stories Margaret Mitchell wrote were about her animals, and then she progressed to fairy tales and adventure stories.

Anderson is probably best known for adventure stories in which larger-than-life characters succeed gleefully or fail heroically.

Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories.

Some of these books, such as The Number of the Beast and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, start out as tightly constructed adventure stories, but transform into philosophical fantasias at the end.

One by one he discovered the authors that would influence his later work: Jack London and his stories of reincarnation and past lives, most notably The Star Rover ( 1915 ); Rudyard Kipling's tales of subcontinent adventure and his chanting, shamanic verse ; the classic mythological tales collected by Thomas Bulfinch.

During the 1990s, the mob, action, and adventure stories fell out of favor with producers due to generally declining ratings for daytime soap operas at the time, and the resultant budget cuts.

The latter type often follows the style of Enid Blyton and other popular children's adventure stories of the 1950s.