Word: humorizing
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...friend who is as straightforward as is Davison, for his character, like that of most strong men, is clear and without picturesqueness, except such picturesqueness as always results when a man is ready to fight a clean fight well. Like his father, he has a keen sense of humor and a love of human beings. His understanding of their foibles and difficulties is extraordinary, and his assumption of many duties has been his only danger. He likes to aid whenever he can, and night and day devotes himself to the study and disentanglement of the important problems that confront...
Occasionally the crowds along the way applauded, but there was neither cheering nor jeering. The parade marched and was reviewed with complete good humor, if not unconcern. It was not the great parade planned two months ago-a national demonstration of 150,000 or 200,000 men. Nor was it the local affair which was announced a day or two before-a parade of the Washington and Maryland Klans...
WHAT PRICE GLORY?-Final month of the War play which seems by its truth and ribald humor to have ended War plays for the present...
...intellectually honest. At some points reason will fall back for support upon faith. Here, these points are many and marked. Yet, within the confines of his citadel, Father Gillan moves always in the open. He is wide-read. He is honest. He is witty. It is with great good humor that he takes the measure of Shaw's "automatic and mechanical perverseness," with true Christian charity that he pities Mark Twain's incurable despondency and Nietzsche's insane courage. He is hygienically, not narrowly, sceptical of Freud's unsavory deductions; gorgeously, not bitterly, ironical over Wells...
Death alters circumstances. Good humor before is not always good taste afterward. It was bad luck for a number of publishers that Mr. Bryan died shortly after he had once again focused the limelight upon himself and they were just about to caricature...