Word: humorizing
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...like. America likes to think of itself as a hustling, bustling, nation of practical and efficient men who have not time to waste either in the creation or reading of navels which do not more than tell a pleasant story pleasantly. America, with all it boasted sense of humor take life more strenuously, if one is to believe its novelists, than do its stoild cousins of England. If it he British stolidity that shows itself in the light grace of the novels of such writers as William J. Locke and Temple Thurston, then let us hope that American humor...
...letter themselves are whimsical, rambling and discursive accounts of the life of asteamphi engineer on the Seven Seizes, the routine of the ship illumed by McFee' day Scottish humor, glimpses of people shipmates, stevedors, and the vast motley collection of people met by he sailorman ashore, and also the auhers thought, his views on art, on books and all the magnified impressions of a full life...
...some offended Jews. I can never think of him as an anti-Semite, for I always find that his views on the Jews, if only properly understood, properly modified, supplemented, and placed in their right setting, are not far from my own. I rather take his occasional ill-humored quips against the Jews as temporary deteriorations in the quality of his humor. The quality of Mr. Chesterton's humor, on the whole, is far superior to that popular brand which we get from public entertainers on the vaudeville stage. For one, he has never taken as butts for his jests...
...sprightly, graceful, and charming chorus play there. This year's performance is well above the average Vincent show in every particular; to the author, Miss Ruth Graves, and to the producer, Mr. J. Jack Caddigan, highest credit is due. To be sure, there seems at times a lack of humor in the production, and the few lapses into burlesque are all too welcome, but the acting, dancing, costumes and tunes more than make up for this fault, if such...
...four acts and many scenes of the play were mostly of a comic order. The humor, if it was not always up to the standard of the Pat and Mike stories, was strangely boisterous and effective; nothing was appreciated more than hero Donovan's brazen nerve in Lawyer Waddy's office when he succeeded in striking a match on the bald pate of the frightened attorney. There were of course, really clever lines, all too many of which escaped the observation of the Collegians and Cavanagh in the boxes; subtility was not expected. As for plot, what more is necessary...