Word: humorously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Emperor Jones" is a short play--no audience could endure its intensity through three full acts. The program is filled out with a curtain-raiser, Susan Glaspell's "Suppressed Desires", a good-natured satire on the Freud-mania. It is full of humor, but on Tuesday night Boston's ponderous intellect was moved to laughter only twice
...essential quality--readability. You may become disgusted with his opinions but, in most cases, you will read to the end. In the first place he has a style which, however, careless it may be, moves, and in the second place he is by no means without a sense of humor. It may be a meaningless world but it has amusing aspects and Fitzgerald has a keen eye for them. Sometimes there is high comedy and sometimes farce but it is always entertaining...
Wilbur.--"Liliom" by Franz Molnar. Joseph Schildkraut is a captivating "roughneck" and Eva LeGallienne the pathetic housemaid who loves him through ten scenes of an unusual play. Humor, pathos, farce, and tragedy mingle...
...true that a senator leads a precarious existence, but who will gain-say that he can at times indulge his sense of humor at the public expense? For nearly a month now the Senate has wrangled over the Alabama Muscle Shoals disposal without any apparent results. Mr. Ford's offer for the contract was alternately condemned and praised for a fortnight. Then Mr. Engstrum made the fight three-cornered by throwing his hat into the ring. Now the question has been further complicated by a doubt as to just what the government owns or has under lease there and also...
...difficult to select extracts from his various articles as the humor is so closely woven into the whole of each. His struggles with a typewriter--which by the way is "Ami et a mijge imean a midgt, made of alumium."--renders one helpless with mirth; while his essays on The Grasshopper, The Art of Poetry, and About Bathrooms, are inimitable. Their humor is somewhat more restrained than that of A Criminal Type, from which we quoted above, as also is that of Reading Without Tears: but perhaps for this very reason they are even more delightful and valuable. For impertinent...