Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to the main biographical thread, Professor Brinton has dropped numerous little side-remarks--bits of sparkling philosophy and good humor--that make his work an altogether pleasing account. He seems to have written his book with an impish smile for his Puritan readers...
...diplomats of the humorless Japanese Empire ever know quite how impudently they are being negotiated with by silkily-polite Chinese statesmen, all of whom seem to have a sense of humor as irrepressible as the Chinese countenance is expressionless...
Joke v. Blow. Lacking though it is in humor, the Japanese Army knows that any joke can be answered by a sufficiently heavy blow. Last week the Japanese Army proper did not move, but Japanese sent 30,000 of their puppet Manchukuoan troops and Mongolian allies on a thundering raid from Chahar, northwest of Peiping, into Suiyuan. The invaders were equipped with tanks, armored cars and battle planes of Japanese manufacture. Actual news from this remote region was scant but early and Chinese-censored dispatches made world headlines thrilling to thousands of Chinese laundrymen and other expatriate Celestials: CHINESE DEFEAT...
More Seriousness Than Humor...
...ample opportunity for humor on the reverse side of their ballots. A Rabbit complained, "I do not like my girl's friends and my girl does not like my friends' girls." A Deacon objected to the red tape involved, stating, "I had to ask unknown woman to accompany us while getting junk upstairs...