Word: humorously
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...scenes from "The Salutation and Conception" from "The Hegge Cycle". All three of these primitive beginnings of the English drama,--dating as they do from a period long before Shakespeare was to give it its upward impetus,--reflect with striking vividness the curious mixture of simple piety and homely humor, of naivette and cunning that went to make up the interesting if illogical mind of the peasant of the time...
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart has earned the gratitude of all Americans who love America in defending himself before the Boston School Committee as he has. Furthermore, he has shown a sense of humor, a sense which some of the gentlemen opposed to him appear sadly to lack...
...Union, will give a private performance this afternoon at 5 o'clock at the home of Mr. W. L. Baine 2G.B. President of the Business School Club, at 4 Mather Court, Cambridge. She will include in her program: "An Old Negro Sermon", log-cabin stories of negro humor. "Gwine to put on dem Golden Shoes" and "Sis Patsy's gone up above...
...Humor, conversation, music, songs, and dancing all go towards the seasoning of a show. The "Spice" has plenty of all these ingredients, but some are either tastelessly weak, or bitterly strong. The conversation was clearly weak. Some of the humour left a rather sour taste in the mouths of the more delicate members of the audience. Of the music, songs, costumes and scenery, little can be said more than that they were merely "fair...
...fact that this is its first public presentation in America, the play is of special interest because of the brilliant success of Andreyev's "He Who Gets Slapped" as produced last season by the New York Theatre Guild. The new play bears the same stamp of merciless, sardonic humor in a thoroughly Russian vein, such as distinguished the other play. It is a drama of five scenes and a prologue...