Word: humorizing
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...clever, frank, and somewhat unrefined musical farces. Like "So Long Letty," which was here a short time ago, this piece treats of western life in the rough, and like it, was produced first on the Pacific coast and then brought here. That it contains a wealth of vulgar humor there is no denying; but the vulgarity, or frankness as it might better be called, is introduced as the means rather than...
...joke, in a tense atmosphere of a class room, often causes the whole assemblage to laugh violently. The earnest person needs many sun circles flashed into his make-up to keep him human and with a true perspective. An occasional joke or smile or other evidence of sense of humor trickle the sun circles into life and make the highlights and the shades stand out more clearly. --Michigan Daily...
...Daly takes his part wonderfully well. The Master, a man of clay, caustic humor, who dominates others with his materialistic but liberal ideas, is before us in the life. When he is involved in the wheels of his own scheme of existence, it is with a feeling almost of loss that we find the Master dominated, after all, by his emotions...
...curtain-raiser gives the Workshop producing forces a good opportunity to display their abilities. In the long play Miss Clugston has depicted life in a Southern Indiana town. The play is replete with local color and the author has filled the three acts with much humor...
...great annoyance to readers of library books is to find margins and type itself covered with humorous inscriptions. There seems to be a species of inexpensive humor which delights in ornamenting books that other men must use. Perhaps these significant underlinings, obliterations and witty marginal notes are put down in a spirit of self-exploitation. If so, the budding jokers would serve their own ends better by accompanying each brilliant jest with their signature...