Word: humorously
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...Yale in its drama department. The hurt university could do few wiser things than to employ Mr. Eaton to succeed Professor Baker as a tutor to the dramatists. As a critic he has many of the better attributes a knowledge of life and the theatre, a sense of humor, a touch of sentiment concerning the plays and players and an influential way of writing and talking. He is not too proud to have a boyish affection for what he calls the "glamour and delight" of Broadway, and he regards its shows and performances as an "endless adventure...
...should have been with me this afternoon. I've had such an interesting time !' " Apparently the Kyne family likes its walks adventuresome-and that's how Peter B. Kyne strikes me-a charming adventurer who writes romances with that rarest of all gifts, a sense of humor...
...legged English of the Oriental schoolboy has long held its place in the humorist's schedule. Whenever the public mouth seems inclined to relax to a comfortable position, a letter in pidgin English restores to it the contortion of lips which passes current for an appreciation of humor. Certain Japanese, with the connivance of Americans, are trying to teach in their schools English "as is" English...
...possible that these idealists have considered the harm they are causing? The benefits of teaching real English are obvious enough, but a mere statement of the disadvantages will dissuade those who would callously knife a tradition of American humor. Deprived of their livelihood, a score of humorists will commit hari-kari, with a jokebook in their hands and a smile on their lips. The American nation, grossly abused in its privilege of laughing at the "furriner's" English, will hasten the Pacific world into war. With Irwin as general, a brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from...
That bogey of liberty--"business efficiency"--is again stalking the land. Mr. Mencken accuses it of a well-assorted category of crimes. Its dastardly attack on the saloon has multiplied sentimental toasts and bibulous jokes. The Kansan prohibition of public smoking has become a subject of vaudeville humor. But the last and least expected of all its crimes is bound to provoke the usually docile American to revolt, instantaneous and complete...