Word: humorizing
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...these plays, by Synge, William Butler Yeats, and Lady Gregory, there is a modern survival of the delicacy of feeling coupled with masculinity, the ardent love for nature, and the wit and humor which lent distinction to Celtic among ancient literatures. To obtain an idea of Ireland today, of her problems and aspirations (of which most of us in this country have but little knowledge) one can scarcely do better than see the Irish Players. N. J. O'CONOR...
...barbaric glitter and wayward humor of the numbers from Rimsky Korsakoff's early opera "Snegourotchka," the orchestra rose to a climax of brilliancy and real unity of ensemble, which constitute a very palpable executive achievement...
...some $50,000 to this friend Professor Hilltop provided he can successfully meet a psychological test intended to prove the deceased professor right in the many warm discussions he and his friend have had on the particular subject. The farcical idea Miss Rice works out with much resource and humor...
...fifteen stellar athletes who clamor at our gates would be so supersensitive as to let a lone cartoon of his race influence his choice of college. If such there be, he is unworthy of the sod which has furnished a greater part of the world's wit and humor. We say this advisedly because by a strange coincidence the man who drew the picture and the president of the board are lineal descendants of St. Patrick themselves, and believe that the opinion voiced in yesterday's communication is not a criterion of the general sentiment of our race in College...
...then again, was the drawing meant to express humor? Ah, there is a point to consider! If the author remembers Life's "The Glorious Fourth," which perhaps he never saw, he recalls the deep moral uplift of the picture...