Word: humorizing
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Either something has happened lately to humor or something has happened to the Lampoon's alumni. The Graduates' Number, just off the presses today, surely is no feather in the old-timer's straw hat this spring...
Lampy, as she stands in her current number, has been despoiled of the wit that made her. Alumni humor, it seems, runs rather to reminiscence than "nut stuff," and right now it is "nut stuff" that has the vogue. But the fault, Dear Ibis, is not your staff, but in your graduates, who have grown beefy...
...giving a play by Benevente, the Dramatic Club produces the work of one of the chief Spanish dramatists. He is preeminently a satirist, but his humor shows itself most in the double meanings that abound in "The Governor's Wife." Being an actor himself, he was able to ignore the common precepts of craftsmanship and to make his style one of the most complex and highly personal in literature...
...most clearly. He creates a multitude of comical situations and clearly and wittily points out how the various characters act under these circumstances. There is not one dull moment in the whole performance; every-line sparkles, every line speeds on the action. Everywhere there is evidence of his subtle humor...
...Legislative, have the supporters of this measure seriously considered what they are doing? The passage of such a bill would be a gratuitous insult to Great Britain. If that country did not choose to regard it as a "causes belie," it would be only from a proper sense of humor, and not from any fear of overstepping the bounds of legality. The establishment of diplomatic relations is the clearest method of recognition, and recognition under such circumstances as these would unquestionably constitute a cause of war, if the parent state chose to regard it in that light...