Word: good-humored
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...praise, however, to May Robson, who rides roughshod over the industrial leaders of the nation, working her will in national crises. Irascible, domineering as she appears, it is impossible to dislike her because of her gruff good-humor, and her submerged maternal affection, which intermittently breaks through her hardness, and prevents the characterization from degenerating into a mechanical personification of worldly greed...
Last week his younger brother, Headmaster Horace Dutton Taft of Taft School (Watertown, Conn.), a brother tall, thin and angular but full of the Taft good-humor, produced a private letter William Howard Taft had written just after Herbert Hoover's election, to Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist, militant dry. Headmaster Taft explained he was offering this evidence to offset all erroneous interpretations of his brother's position on Prohibition...
...college student of today resembles "an emotional flat tire due to over-stimulation cause by fast living." Unfortunately, as usual in these reflections, no supporting evidence is given so that any rebuttal is out of the question. All we can do is to take these cubistic portraits in the good-humor that Thomas K. Beecher said made all things tolerable. --Cornell Daily Sun, April...
...Kerry Gow", a play that is an old favorite in Boston, was presented for the first time in several years on Monday night at the Arlington Theatre. Its merry good-humor, its romance and exciting situations, made an irresistible appeal to an enthusiastic house...
Representing your son's classmates at Harvard, we desire to express our deep sympathy for you in the great loss you have sustained. Though he was less widely known than some, his wholesaled and manly good-fellowship, his unfailing wit and good-humor, and his bright, friendly disposition, will cause him long to be remembered by all with whom he came in contact. Yours sincerely, ERNEST R. GREENE, ARTHUR D. WYMAN, GEO. PARKER MILNE, REGINALD FINCKE, JAMES LAWRENCE...