Word: humorically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said the managing editor to me the other day, "I'm not strong for humor ordinarily--I'm a serious-minded feller--but your story last Saturday was the funniest ever...
...mincing, exquisite Frances Starr portrays delightfully the lurid Mrs. Amaranth, come home to Kiwanisport, N. Y., from Europe and worse. Uneasy as a bird of plumage roosting in a barnyard, she is most uneasy of all lest she be considered "on the shelf." Through three acts of easily forgettable humor she defends the honor of her sex appeal. Donald Meek, once again a hilariously henpecked clergyman, spend-thriftily purchases eight kisses from Mrs. Amaranth at his own church bazaar. Thenceforward it is but a step until the glittering and ever competent Arthur Byron, this time a scheming Senator, gold digs...
...devastating a method of existence. Rather will it be the direct result of a good advertising campaign, backed by Butter and Eggers, outlined by gentlemen from a New York or Gopher Praicie agency, land dependent for its success upon the credulity of some and the sense of humor, of the rest...
What the half element in American life does not affect, those with a "sense of humor" accomplish. Indeed, if all of the people in this country, instead of intelligence tests, were given humor tests, and the successful sunk in the western ocean, Gertrude Ederle could walk to Honolulu and Italy colonize in the Middle West. That great fault in the genus Americans, an over developed sense of humor plue that blessing of a youthful nation, credulity--those two factors are enough to march a dictator's army up the steps of the White House and make the presidential silence...
President von Hindenburg, attired as a feldmarschall, spent the week at, that picturesque Württemberg spa, Bad Mergentheim, sallied forth daily to watch the maneuvres with Defense Minister Gessler and General von Seeckt. From a hilltop Old Paul von Hindenburg watched in high good humor the game which he once played in such deadly earnest. On the hilltop with him stood a U. S. and a Soviet Russian military observer...