Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic candidate for the Presidency has a sense of humor and a "way" of expressing himself. Reporters took to him a question. Did he still believe, as he had professed 18 months earlier, that the Constitution should be amended to do away with the need of a two-thirds vote of the Senate to ratify a treaty and to substitute for it a majority vote of both Houses? Said Mr. Davis...
...super-adjectives, containing many plagiarisms, "the outpourings of a gushing school girl." She regrets that Marie did not write of some lovely Rumanian legend, that her Russian blood did not endow her with "some talent, mysticism and taste," that the English blood did not "add a sense of humor to her complex composition." Finally she is left pondering what on earth the book is about. Says Mrs. Sheridan: "A strange young woman named Glava rides a carrot-colored horse whose tail sweeps the ground.... She does much climbing of mountains, dresses in white robes, carries a spear, has her hair...
...touch of Teutonic humor is not absent. Referring to a Royal visit to the Armies, she says: "Madame de Chartres, Madame la Duchesse and the Princess de Conti have all three returned from the expedition pregnant, so the King cannot pretend that this journey was a fruitless...
...RIGHT PLACE−C. E. Montague−Doubleday, Page & Co. ($2.50). Mr. Montague, in "holiday humor," here lets flow delicious cataracts of amenities, which must have been dammed up within him for many years. Whatever delights him−from the discovery of a glassy, Swiss lake to the discussion of "faces and fortunes of cities"−is in The Right Place, the reading of which is in itself a holiday. Borrowing the Montague imagination, one experiences the cream of excursions. It is not, however, a book of travels; it is a series of enchanting essays wherein remembered places served...
...never stresses her points - but she makes them, neatly, incisively, roundly complete. The subject-matter of the present group of essays ranges from The Masterful Puritan and The Divineness of Discontent, to The American Laughs (a charming discussion of kinds of humor), and The Idolatrous Dog - all disputatious subjects, but ones in which Miss Repplier lines up the hosts, sets the stage for battle, then gracefully withdraws...