Word: humorizing
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...Carrillo is entrusted with the task of giving reality to this theory. He is good but never great. The saving humor of the play is well developed by the remainder of the cast, particularly Miss Bryan-Allen and Malcolm Williams (General Orlando Jackson...
Pedro de Cordoba, cast as the triumphant Trent, plays with a fine technique but without humor and the indispensable grand mannerisms of a pirate hero. The ferocity of the crew and the fine feminine helplessness of Carroll McComas are wholly satisfactory...
Fliegende Blaetter, known not only in Germany but throughout the world, is a paper of the type of Life, Judge and others. Its cartoons are decidedly more virulent and less beautiful than those of Charles Dana Gibson. The humor for which it is known is often not suited to a New England parlor. Its touch with world affairs is perhaps more like that of Punch than that of any paper published on this side of the Atlantic. The very grossness of its humor, the apparent near-strangulation of every character in its cartoons, has created it a place from which...
...other hand " a spokesman at the White House" who ordinarily gives out the official version of what happens at Cabinet meetings, is usually Secretary Hughes. In the first meeting with the President the correspondents had a surprise. Instead of being reticent Mr. Coolidge was frank and outspoken- full of humor. He spoke with self-confidence. He discussed the questions brought up directly, succinctly. His tone of voice if not commanding was at least full of assurance. He ended with a few humorous remarks and the correspondents ("hard-boiled news gatherers") applauded. It was a distinct success for the new President...
...implication is (as it was in This Freedom), "Back to the home!" But Bread succeeds where This Freedom failed: in its fidelity to the actual conditions of life and its lack of sweetie-sweetiness. A long book, crammed with detail, written without grace, without style, with little humor ?but highly readable...