Word: humorizing
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...strong but quiet tongue, and Dermot McDermot honorable, sure in his saddle and loved by dogs-of which there are many about-terriers, deerhounds, foxhound packs and puppies, and the red setter Rory. He wrote the love-making of these two as a slow, certain thing of wry humor and restrained ecstasy, and, as the Irish are, a little...
...this is not humor, it is truth. No matter what that anachronistic old bird of prey, the Ibis, may scream this is truth, real honest to Crime truth. I have no desire to be humorous when I see how little it takes to maintain such a tradition. Take the Silent Man at Washington. He is very humorous. But I would rather be tight than to be president. There is some excuse for being tight...
...Carlyle without dyspepsia, "a less unkempt Walt Whitman," "a less distracted Tolstoi" and "the complete anti-Kipling." It appears, simply, that if life is a dance, as Ellis has suggested, then he is one of the greatest, gravest dancing masters, a sane anarchist with a cosmic sense of humor...
Oranges and tomatoes flew and eggs smashed yesterday afternoon on the steps of Widener in the most riotous exhibition a Freshman class has furnished at a Senior begging in years. Little of the humor and good feeling characteristic of the taking of former Senior and Freshman pictures was evident in the battle which raged between the two classes yesterday...
...bust is placed outside a room where, 200 years ago, the midnight taper burned late, often and with great regularity. Young John Wesley, though "gay and sprightly, with a turn for wit and humor," was imbued with a deep purpose, and to accomplish it he systematized his living, and his friends' living, most strictly. They slept, ate, studied and discussed their aims on a time schedule so business-like that it drew upon them the ridicule of their irresponsible fellow Lincolnians. "Bible Bigots," they were called, "The Holy Club," and, for their ordered habits, "Methodists...