Word: humorizing
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...Those who framed this program and selected the convention motto had a sense of humor...
...BLUE-H. C. McNeile ("Sapper")-Doran ($2.00). Melodrama being his métier, the author of Bull Dog Drummond fares only moderately well on the cramped stage of the short story. His happiest efforts are with humor and suspense, as Uncle James's Golf Match-a rib-splitter-and the titular tale of this collection, wherein a murder is averted by the veriest trifle. In other instances, suspense is fool's gold. The nugget of denouement fails to pan out. In still others- The Porterhouse Steak, about a starving but proud war hero; The Film That Never...
...awarded his diploma in absentia. Sellers was, however, present at the exercises, completely disguised as a girl. He heard himself lauded, awarded three prizes, heard the class poem written by him read by another. Explained his mother, Mrs. Sellers: "Charles is exceedingly shy. Also, he has a sense of humor...
...means distinguished. The horseplay seems singularly oldfashioned. It is still funny. Lucky Sambo. Negro musical comedies tipped Manhattan off its tolerant balance some seasons back with Shuffle Along. Ever since then, there have been imitations. Of Lucky Sambo it is not necessary to beware. The music is fair, the humor humorously to type and the dancing uncontrollable. There is a plot about an oil well, and a man who remarks to his girl: "What did you do with that $4 I promised you last night...
...faith in hard work and sermonizing. He laid out his city, instituted communal economics, established a stream of immigration from the East and Europe by steamship and handcart caravans, drove the Mormons to make their wilderness blossom as a rose with a plentiful mixture of hard sense, humor, reproach and simple sincerity. He made friends with the Indians and fenced successfully with Washington. Under him, polygamy, previously furtive, became a public duty. Men took crones and pining spinsters as well as bevies of young virgins; Mormon theology was revised to show that Christ had had at least three wives. Brigham...