Word: humorizing
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...individual. In real life, he is an entirely different man from what he is made to appear in the press. ... I know most people think of my father as hard, severe, cold-blooded and harsh, but he is none of those things. He has a marvelous sense of humor and has his tongue in his cheek at many things that happen in Washington. He is a good storyteller. I ought to know, for I've been listening to his stories since I was knee-high to a duck. And he has wit. His opponents have learned that...
Shortly the unfortunate car owners discovered that their entire fleet had been spirited away like Aladdin's famous castle. They searched and searched, and at last found the garage man and paid him storage. A few, not realizing the colossal sense of humor of the Police Department, are still looking for them. Some of the more literal minded son's went so far as to ask the police to justify their joke. They should have caught the spirit of the thing and remembered that there is always a clause which can be stretched to cover any case. Of course their...
There are almost 100 songs in the collection with antiquated names and dated anywhere from 1709 to 1900. One in particular shows that even back in the days when the University had blue Sundays and witches were hurned on Harvard Square, that the undergraduates still had a sense of humor. According to the frontispiece, the song constitutes a versified testament and is entitled "Father Abbey's Will". An explanatory preface precedes the first lines which reads: "Some time since died here Mr. Matthew Abbey in a very advanced age. He had for many year's served the college in quality...
...Self-rating is frequently more reliable than ratings by associates, espescially when the individuals have been trained. On the whole, however, individuals tend to overrate themselves in the possession of desirable qualities; notably, a sense of humor and possession of self-knowledge...
...between Town and Gown. There is also the hypothesis that the vicious driver, instead of being a psychopathic case, is a convert to Fundamentalism trying like a Mussulman to roar up to Heaven with the life of a Modernist for registration, license, and gate pass. Whatever the explanation, the humor of the situation is rapidly passing beyond that stage characterized by Dean Swift as "A college joke to help the dumps...