Word: humorically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telegram sent to Rogers by the State Treasurer of California, in which the Treasurer is reported to have assured Rogers of enough support to gain him a seat at Washington. In announcing his action, the official is quoted as saying that Rogers has proved himself through his sense of humor to possess "an intellectual understanding of politics" which is worthy to be applied seriously to governmental matters. Obviously the proposal is of a more serious nature than merely to give Will Rogers an opportunity to express his choice or lack of it as to running for office, although...
...strong Will Rogers might become a Senator. And if he is judged worthy by his own State, the possibility would be by no means unfortunate. For the point on which he might be subject to most criticism would probably prove to be his greatest asset. An effective sense of humor and a measure of satire, if coupled with any sort of real understanding, could do no harm to the Senate. As to the presence of such an understanding, Mr. Rogers' Californian colleagues are in a position to judge...
...much, by way of preface, is rendered necessary by the tendency of both English and Americans to deny to each other any sense of humor...
...writer must confess to a certain prejudice in favor of this issue of the Lampoon due to the fact that careful perusal of its pages has failed to discover any reference to indifferent horsemanship. This violent departure from the iron tradition of American humor speaks volumes for the originality of the paper...
...foreign to its American proto-types, and that is the ability to ridicule without becoming bitter. Concerning its immediate victim, these United States, the magazine is gently cynical; but it never becomes heated and it seems always to remember that its "message" should remain subordinate to its primary function--humor...