Word: humorizing
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...going to kill me. Go ahead." Then he would say, "I would, but look at all the mess me and your wife would have to clean up afterwards." It was like brothers arguing, and it could turn bad, or we could have a laugh. Our sense of humor pulled us over those dodgy times...
...were going to be infinitely happy,” Wood said. “You couldn’t be anything but happy when you were with Stine.”Many of Rossel’s colleagues also praised her cheerfulness and sense of humor. Fellow graduate student Zinovi Matskevich, who shared an office with Rossel and conducted fieldwork with her in the country of Georgia years before she attended Harvard, said that Rossel brought joy to all who knew her. “She created festivals from the most boring tasks,” he said.Matskevich recalled Rossel...
...Valkenburgh said. Rossel had a post-doctoral position at the University of Copenhagen. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America David Carrasco called her a “deeply valued member” of the Anthropology Department’s archaeology wing, mentioning her “bright humor.” “Our community of learners is stricken and we are struggling together to make sense of this,” Carrasco wrote in an e-mailed statement. —Material from The Associated Press was used in the reporting of this story...
...victim, a Donald Wyman crabapple, was one of three trees to have survived an attempt to cut it down by an editor of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...there are few better engines of transformation than laughter, which can turn a king into an object of ridicule as easily as it can elevate mere affection to love. Humor is a key element of “Metamorphoses,” and the members of the show’s excellent 10-person ensemble cast are frequently very, very funny...