Word: humorizing
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...close, Mr. Monteux played Ravel's "Choreographic Poem" the Waltz, with an understanding and sympathy which wholly redeemed the less interesting parts of the concert. Ravel is beyond description--certainly the master-satirist of music. Humor, subtlety, musical virtuosity; all are his. Listening, the Boston audience ponders solemnly, frowning on those who see the point...
...turns to the rich, discursive, detailed manner of Clayhanger and The Old Wives' Tale. A slighter book than these, it is nevertheless quite as able. The bare outline of the plot necessarily makes the novel sound some-what squalid and overly grim?but it is neither. There is much humor in it, excellent portraiture, great fidelity to life. The years have not diminished Mr. Bennett's extraordinary curiosity about practically everything and person in this transient world...
...Hall of the Music Building by Mr. Boris Saslawsky. Mr. Saslawsky is a Russian baritone who has been travelling in America on concert tours for several years. He has won a very favorable reputation for his rendering of simple Russian folk tunes, which he sings with rare feeling and humor. In addition his program this evening includes several French folk songs,--"Au Clair de la Lune", and "Les Berceaux", as well as several old English and Scotch melodies...
...surprising; as a pleasing, easy-going, rather placid performance it was entirely satisfactory. As everyone knows, there is little or no excitement involved in "Shavings"; there are several passages of not too heavy pathos, but on the whole it runs along at a charming level of quaint humor and light philosophy, "Shavings" himself, the kindly, absent minded toy-maker, is usually engaged in trying to unite the village feudists, Captain Sam Hunniwell and Phineas Babbitt, and eventually he succeeds when Leander Babbitt and Maude Hunniwell decide to be married. There are several other parallel themes, but the plot...
...chiefly the common sense of humor which guffaws at any joke smacking of anything alcoholic, which seizes on any case of drunkenness it may, and spreads the story as fast as it may, that is responsible. Perhaps this tendency reacts to make some few men proud beyond the average of their drunkenness, and so further encourages publicity. Certain it is that daily papers, as a rule, exaggerate the importance of the evil, in their attempt to cater to public taste.--The very fact that illicit liquor is so increasedly expensive prevents much drunkenness--but, it seems, Harvard, Yale and Princeton...