Word: humorizing
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...story is just such a one as any returned soldier might tell in any American home, and yet it is not without its elements of characteristic humor--as witness the butcher from the Windy City stockyards who is said to have written to his Chicago Mabel that the job wasn't so very different from his regular job at home only "not so regular...
...Gavit's death from typhoid fever last Thursday night is a tragic loss for those who knew him here at College. His brilliant spontaneity as a writer, his delightful humor in conversation and force in argument marked him as one of the strongest intellectual figures of his class. During the fall his many articles for the Advocate and the CRIMSON were of unusual distinction. His election to the two papers last week was but a small recognition of the marked ability and keen interest which he showed...
...undergraduates is, oddly enough, all the more literary than usual. In fact, to an outsider it seems that Mother Advocate might be saying to herself. "Well, this home cooking isn't so bad after all." Having decided for a homelike novelty, the editors evidently stipulated that quality and good humor were not to go by the board; these two points the reviewer finds as outstanding features of the number...
...Gavit writes a pleasing sketch, Mr. Garrison likewise; and lastly Mr. MacVeagh's trifle. A drama article and copious reviews of good books (here the graduates creep in) conclude the number. One closes the issue with the feeling that the Advocate Board, having produced a number of genuine humor and quality, deserves a ride that luxurious-looking, self-propelling carriage advertised on the reverse cover...
...Gardener's Cottage", "Toul Sector Days", and "The Town of Cuffles", remind us forcibly of Bruce Bairnsfather. The fact is that, missing alike the delicate expressiveness of the French draughtsman and the whimsicality of the Britisher, Mr. Baldridge strikes a note of sureness, of Yankee ruggedness and good humor, which neither the former nor the latter could have achieved. His drawing is at once broad and sure; his characterization is, excellent. In "The Territorial", in Veterans of the Marne", and in "The Family With Whom I Lived in Soissons", it is the vivid rendering of types,--be they Yanks, Zouaves...