Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stocky man, and a bluff man, William McFee, with a seaman's sense of humor and a book-lover's wisdom. He does not bemoan the vanished days of sailing vessels. His romances are those of the swift modern ships, of merchantman and transport. As an essayist and critic he is almost as well known as for his novels. His opinions of books are often violent; but usually well founded...
...Mencken's theories of the " American language " met the ridicule of speakers before the Conference of British and American Professors of English at Columbia. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton referred to the suggestion of an American language as being either " a specimen of American humor " or " a serious enormity." Dr. F. N. Scott, of Michigan, speaking of Mr. Mencken's translation of the Declaration of Independence said: " That Mr. Mencken has failed to perceive the gulf between the sterile vulgarity of his performance and the massive dignity of the original, is for Americans not a matter...
...then there are always the 'Alls?the Music 'Alls where one can; study the difference between the English and American brands of humor for hours without ever reaching any conclusion whatsoever...
Besides an ability to present a scene, Viscount Bryce has the power of describing people. An unbounded sympathy and a keen sense of humor gave him those qualities essential to the portrait painter. His picture of the Polish guide is unforgettable. "He was a strange wild creature, tall, stalwart, and handsome, with bold features, dark hair hanging in long locks round his cheeks and an expression in his eyes like that of a startled fawn. Not that I can remember ever to have seen a startled fawn: however, his expression, was just that which the startled fawn is supposed...
...Comic and Humorous Reciter is catholic in its tastes ? specimens of both English and American humor are admitted. Mark Twain and Bret Harte are represented, Dan Leno, Artemus Ward, and through out, that prolific writer, Anon. Would you convulse your hearers with an eight-page humorous de scription of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race? Or titillate them instead with misadventures attending a journey in a Pullman Palace Car? Here you are ? a little memory and you can be funny in at least five dialects, all equally incredible...