Word: humorizing
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...Democratic candidate for the Presidency has a sense of humor and a "way" of expressing himself. Reporters took to him a question. Did he still believe, as he had professed 18 months earlier, that the Constitution should be amended to do away with the need of a two-thirds vote of the Senate to ratify a treaty and to substitute for it a majority vote of both Houses? Said Mr. Davis...
...touch of Teutonic humor is not absent. Referring to a Royal visit to the Armies, she says: "Madame de Chartres, Madame la Duchesse and the Princess de Conti have all three returned from the expedition pregnant, so the King cannot pretend that this journey was a fruitless...
...RIGHT PLACE−C. E. Montague−Doubleday, Page & Co. ($2.50). Mr. Montague, in "holiday humor," here lets flow delicious cataracts of amenities, which must have been dammed up within him for many years. Whatever delights him−from the discovery of a glassy, Swiss lake to the discussion of "faces and fortunes of cities"−is in The Right Place, the reading of which is in itself a holiday. Borrowing the Montague imagination, one experiences the cream of excursions. It is not, however, a book of travels; it is a series of enchanting essays wherein remembered places served...
...disputatious if she would. Her essays are among the most polished, civilized, smooth-flowing products of contemporary pens. Her erudition is always so glossed over with silken-smooth phrasing that one does not at once compass its depth. In addition, she has a quick little poniard of deft humor, a keen sense of values...
...never stresses her points - but she makes them, neatly, incisively, roundly complete. The subject-matter of the present group of essays ranges from The Masterful Puritan and The Divineness of Discontent, to The American Laughs (a charming discussion of kinds of humor), and The Idolatrous Dog - all disputatious subjects, but ones in which Miss Repplier lines up the hosts, sets the stage for battle, then gracefully withdraws...