Word: humorizing
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...marvelous humor, wistful whimsicality and delicious irony of the text have been masterfully transferred into the music. Children enjoy most the passages which eloquently describe the "beamish boy's" conquest of the Jabberwock...
Every morning the first thing when he gets up--for the process of daily rising has settled on him like a habit--P. G. Wodehouse goes to the door and looks for the milk bottle which he left out for his daily supply of humor. Sometimes the humor is richer than other times. One morning not so long ago he found the humor in the bottle very rich indeed; solid cream; turn it upside down if you don't believe it. So then he sat down and took the cream out in spoonfuls and put it all into the book...
From time to time the newspaper colyumists, in the interest of humor, have published fragments of conversation heard in passing by their contributors. Several years ago the psychologist, Henry T. Moore, analyzed a number of such conversations heard in various places, and found that men converse frequently about business, money, amusements, whereas women seem to be primarily concerned with clothes and decoration...
...known that he entered into undergraduate activity and argument with heat. Presently, he must have entered, too, into the life of the world, as his The Salamander bears witness. The F. Scott Fitzgerald of his generation, he has maintained his ability to report manners and customs with humor, combined with insight and decorum as his new novel Blue Blood* proves...
...enjoys its clubs and its life. He will impress you, when you chance to meet him, as a pleasant, somewhat detached gentleman who looks at life with the eyes of a reporter, yet lives, himself?a most difficult feat, and one which those cursed with too much sense of humor cannot accomplish. Yet there is no denying Mr. Johnson's sense of humor ?witness The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, the later Skippy Bedelle...