Word: humorizing
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Although this was her first big hit, it was only one of man. She has had nine plays produced on Broadway, among them "Naughty Marietta," "Maytime," and "Little Old New York." The same qualities of lightness, clever humor, and deft characterizations, all of which contribute most to pure entertainment, have distinguished her later plays as they did "Brown of Harvard...
...full knowledge that the customer gets his money's worth and will always find it enlightening and, what is still better, can safely take it home and let his wife and 15-year-old daughter read it. TIME'S English is superb, unequaled, to the point; its humor wholesome, and its editors are not color blind - they don't see red. If every European country published one or two magazines to equal TIME, conditions throughout the world would improve and much more would be accomplished in bringing about peace, understanding and good will among nations than...
...Eric glowed for a moment with satisfaction at the thought that a new League Assembly Hall and Secretariat will shortly rise upon the Bartholoni property and on adjacent lots. Sir Eric's good humor vanished as he settled down to the vast batch of despatches which are his perennial due. Ominous developments concerning the League were occurring at London (see COMMONWEALTH, "Chamberlain Grilled"), at Berlin (see GERMANY, "Tirpitz Roused"), at Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "Houghton Stumbles...
...would, indeed, be a pleasure for those who have loved the humor of a later Artemas Ward, to be able to think of him as a descendant of the worthy old general. Yet this is unfortunately not the case, for the name of the humorist was Charles Farer Browne, who chose as his nomme do plume. "Artemas Ward", for reasons known only to himself...
More than that: the final value of the new tendency cannot be estimated from debates of this sort so accurately as from argument over the usual type of question. If debate on propositions of a serious nature derives new yigor from these experiments with humor, and questions of importance can come to be presented in a more keen and pleasing manner, the art will have been greatly refined. Many steps forward have been taken within the last few years by recognizing the important role of wit in debating. Therein lies the true worth of this less solemn tendency. Dwight...