Word: humorously
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...doesn't find the expected enjoyment. At Capri he is stricken with mortal illness. At once the hotel manager loses his politeness, hustles the body into a cheap coffin, and it is carried back on the same expensive ship to America. The story is told with vividness and cruel humor. The other stories relate strange and morbid events. All are lone with great...
...Commandment. A conventionally sentimental tear-teaser, pleasing only because of Colleen Moore, who manages to be charming as the poor young working-girl with the invalid husband, and George Cooper, whose comedy has genuine humor and finesse...
Colonel Ham, a white-haired enthusiast, warmed to reminiscences of Mark Twain, broken in his latter days, but still blessed with a sense of humor, and of Dickens' son, Charles, for a time in the Canadian Northwest mounted police. " I never mentioned his father to him," Colonel Ham told us, "and he was so surprised and pleased that he actually liked me." At this point Stephen Leacock broke in, violently. "I'd rather have met a relative of Dickens' than any crowned head in Europe," he insisted. Dickens, it seems, is his literary god. Shakespeare? Oh, yes? Well and good?...
...murder should have no love interest, but in this case it seems little out of place, and indeed, with the surprising tensity of the rest, some diversion is necessary. With two murders, two or three attempted murders, forgery and theft, much is needed to relieve the strain. The humor, such as it is, however, might better have been left out entirely...
...ways reaching the heights made possible by the part, at all times played more than adequately. Meeting exceedingly well the exacting requirements of the role of the prime minister he succeeded, an accomplishment always difficult, in creating the illusion of a famous historical character. Here was the shrewd humor, the compelling personality, and subtile cleverness of the diplomatist, Disraeli...