Word: humorizing
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...true that they light their own cigarette and then blow out the match. The rumor that they pass their classmates without speaking has no foundation in fact. And lastly, they are amply endowed with a broad sense of humor, and laugh heartily at the traditional quips aimed at their university...
...Beacon Hill, is astounded at his display or merriment. And he is perplexed as to its source. Whether it be simply an unrecognized playfulness in the makeup of Boston's citizens, or whether it veers to the other extreme in the shape of a seriously perverted sense of humor, is hard to say. Whatever its excuse, it must be as irritating to the actors as it is to the playgoer who wants to get his money's worth of thrills, shudders, or sighs...
...privilege of youth to be silly in its ardor, amusing in its lack of a sense of humor. It is the duty of youth to aspire mightily, oven at the risk of appearing ridiculous to those who admit themselves to be wise and sane. But it has no right to don the garments of old men and sit by the fireside smiling in a supercilious, sophisticated manner at the "other buffoons...
...Aristocrat" announces that "not with the eye of philosopher or critic, avoiding the quip and lesson of reformer, standing aside from bustle," it treads "the ways of antiquity," and it offers the modest hope that it may "calm the undergraduate mania for achievement with a leaven of whimsical humor...
...yesterday. The manner of its coming is reminiscent of the lurid red and yellow outbursts of two years ago, when periodical aped periodical, and newsboys screamed themselves hoarse. And like many of them it may come to an inglorious end. The twentieth century has neither the time nor the humor to listen to the echoes of dilettantism from the reign of Queen Anne. But that the editors should have realized before they started on their career as Spectators. At any rate, after all is said and done, these sporadic leaflets at least provide amusement for the college, and help...