Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tycoon: "Just how his personality could break down all barriers was shown at a dinner party, given during Kiel Regatta shortly before the great war by Kaiser Wilhelm II, aboard his imperial yacht to Sir Thomas Lipton and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. The Kaiser was in a bad humor and inclined to be coldly polite. Mr. Morgan, sensing the frigidity, became frigid too. But not so the genial Sir Thomas! His joviality and high spirits soon thawed everything and everybody, most of all the Kaiser himself, whom he all but patted on the back. Wilhelm rocked with laughter...
...them in cold print. And yet we can get them off with a perfectly straight face, and conviction in our tones. This bland positiveness bears out the suggestion of a recent alumna that college, whatever it may teach us, is very apt to deprive us of our sense of humor and our ability to see things in their proper proportions and relationships...
...sense of humor implies an ability for seeing the discrepaucies in even the most serious of our beliefs, and those of us who wrap our home-made philosophy in waxed paper, all ready to take home to the kiddies, are ignoring these discrepancies. We would do better to keep an open mind and take the best that human knowledge has to offer us and leave the sweeping statements to those whose limited knowledge permits them the Presumption of such generalities. Vassar Miscellany News...
...Into a poverty in which peasants sleep with roaches running across their faces, and chop their houses in half when a family splits up, and plough, lacking a horse or an ox, with a cow in the traces, the Commune brings mowing machinery and a cream separator. Bold rustic humor finds rich material in the wedding of Fomka, the communal bull, for which the whole village turns out in Sunday clothes. Gathered in front of a barn gate, waiting the entry of Fomka's flower-wreathed bride, the crowd repeats "here she comes" but the first creature to come through...
...those retreating chins which is nevertheless determined; his teeth turned in, the kind of mouth people have who are afraid to step out and fight in the open but who secretly by hook or by crook are determined to have their own way." Nor is the book without humor, illustrated by the story of an old pastry-lover who interpreted literally and insistently the statement on restaurant menus: "All kinds of pie, 10?...