Word: humorically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subway billboards inform all and sundry, leaves one in the same frame of mind. Here are hundreds of people in the audience whooping away for dear life at a certain play that leaves this reviewer cold; the awful possibility that he might see a certain amount of humor in it and so be tempted to see other plays of the same kind has given him no peace since. It is at once depressing and injurious to the ears to sit in the middle of an audience that progresses rapidly into hysteries without any desire to laugh oneself...
...strong but quiet tongue, and Dermot McDermot honorable, sure in his saddle and loved by dogs-of which there are many about-terriers, deerhounds, foxhound packs and puppies, and the red setter Rory. He wrote the love-making of these two as a slow, certain thing of wry humor and restrained ecstasy, and, as the Irish are, a little...
...this is not humor, it is truth. No matter what that anachronistic old bird of prey, the Ibis, may scream this is truth, real honest to Crime truth. I have no desire to be humorous when I see how little it takes to maintain such a tradition. Take the Silent Man at Washington. He is very humorous. But I would rather be tight than to be president. There is some excuse for being tight...
...Carlyle without dyspepsia, "a less unkempt Walt Whitman," "a less distracted Tolstoi" and "the complete anti-Kipling." It appears, simply, that if life is a dance, as Ellis has suggested, then he is one of the greatest, gravest dancing masters, a sane anarchist with a cosmic sense of humor...
Oranges and tomatoes flew and eggs smashed yesterday afternoon on the steps of Widener in the most riotous exhibition a Freshman class has furnished at a Senior begging in years. Little of the humor and good feeling characteristic of the taking of former Senior and Freshman pictures was evident in the battle which raged between the two classes yesterday...