Word: humorously
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...Odell Shepard's masterly study, "The poetry of War", puts us all in his debt. Critical insight, and learning enlivened by touches of humor, the artist's feeling for the inevitable phrase--all these qualities combine to make it an enduring contribution to literature. The truth about war, Dr. Shepard points out, is not to be found in Othello's "Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!" but rather in Falstaff's "food for powder, food for powder." And this is the truth that the poets of the present war have expressed. In his "Dead Boche" Robert Graves writes...
...clapped into a limousine" and "by dint of theatre parties and champagne", is amusing enough and well fit for the latest parody on the Harvard Magazine, even when we do not consider that the author meant it to be serious. It gives very good proof that the unintentional humor is the best...
...second red parody has appeared after all. It claims to sing that "a large sense of humor's a very rare thing," which truth is conclusively born out by its own wretched contents...
...attired in flowing black robes and balancing awkward square caps on their heads. For its final six weeks of undergraduate existence, 1919 will for the first and last time assume a scholarly aspect. The sedate Seniors will stumble along in unfamiliar skirts, to the detriment of their own good humor, until they receive the coveted sheepskin. Thus will one of our oldest traditions be continued...
...executions and the fineness and intensity of the aristocrats thrown into relief by the unrestrained, but justly impassioned mob. The gayety of the modern Parisian is something so hard to define, so hard to put your hand on, that it is often a relief after our own boisterous humor...