Word: humorizing
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...HUDSON: A PORTRAIT-Morley Roberts-Dutton ($5.00). A kaleidoscopic picture of the many-sided Hudson, done with honesty, humor and appreciativeness by his great and good friend. This is not a biography but a casually constructed group of stories and criticisms that merge into a coherent whole. Hudson stands, a hawklike, savage, difficult figure outlined in sweeping strokes against the background of a loveless marriage, drab boarding house surroundings, and fame that came too late for him 'to enjoy. His is the spirit of genius; he loved the windswept downs, the wild barren places, the creatures of the forest...
...small point in the humor of this situation lies in the fact that the names of the two New York investors in the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton are B. M. Straus and Jerome Tannenbaum...
...very titles of the chapters are a triumph: Smartness and Light, for H. L. Mencken; Youth and Wings, for Edna St. Vincent Millay; Flame and Slag, for Carl Sandburg; Beyond Grammar, for Ring Lardner. He covers the field of philosophers, poets, wits, essayists. His estimates are tempered with sympathy, humor, real understanding. He praises and blames ; weighs faults against virtues. One reads on absorbedly for some time before one becomes subtly conscious that no final criticism has been made, no judgment pronounced. In the last chapter one discovers Mr. Van Doren's friendly confession: "He still insists that...
...moving picture theatre it seems quite certain that their recognition by the United States will be indefinitely postponed. The clever satire of the American business man's conception of Red Russia as a waste of ruins, overrun by millions of razor-shy, bomb-throwing blackguards shows a sense of humor perhaps newly-born, as the Times correspondent insinuates, but in any case in an extremely healthy condition...
...Phillips Brooks was one of the most influential leaders who ever went through Harvard. He was simple, kindly, with the keenest sense of humor. His power with the students was tremendous. Appleton Chapel was crowded when he spoke. So popular was he that after his death when $60,000 for a memorial statue was requested, over $100,000 was subscribed. Again in a few months another generous subscription was asked, as a result of which Phillips Brooks House was built...