Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not hear from me but once the word 'Wet' or 'Dry.' I do not use them, first, because they are vulgar, and, second, because they are meaningless. My sense of humor protects me from applying the word 'Dry' to those supporters of a policy which has filled this nation, from Atlantic to Pacific, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, with a traffic in intoxicating liquor, wholesale and retail, that is illicit, illegal, untaxed and stupendously profitable...
...Lardner has not shirked a single chance to rid himself of the reputation for "depth" which jealous fellow-writers recently fastened upon him. He puns along stoutly, just to show what he cares for humor. " 'If you do,' " he remembers a laundress retorting to one of his advances, " 'I will be hot under the collar.'" And he unblushingly sets down his comeback: "'Underwear...
...Post he called for an American Lucretius to transform the new miracles of science into a new religion. He moved Athens to Iowa, in his imagination, and outlined a Sacred Book. Then he was the Pericles of Provincetown, creating the creative mood in others by his prodigious vitality, sympathies, humor, dreams. He remade his own house with ax, saw and chisel (building in an elevator when his wife's heart ailed) ; made beach sand yield greens; painted, modeled, wrote; created a new national theatre. On the wall of his house he made a fresco showing the evolution of Living...
There, he spoke more in humor than in rage. He might have led a liberal party into power. But, upon him as upon his fellow regular irregular, Senator William E. Borah, "party ties lie lightly." Mr. Borah, ablest orator in the Senate,* Mr. Norris, dean of progressives, remained imposing might-have-beens...
When the great dames and ladies of Britain's woman's suffrage movement read these crass words they took up the telephones, called "Regent 500," and told Lord Hugh Cecil with plaintive good humor what they thought...