Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Novelist Priestley, after reading Miss Hurst's critique, after consulting his friend Manhattan Critic Henry Seidel Canby, beat a retreat on the ground that he had been joking, stated: "I am one of those strange Englishmen who really have a sense of humor...
...humor, ornithologically considered, consists largely in giving somebody the bird: cuckoo, mocking-bird or pompous ostrich. Funnyman Thurber's is half-ostrich, half-cuckoo; Funnyman Gibbs's is all mocking-bird...
...decision will confront him. Will he go to the Tremont Temple to have his soul saved by Billy Sunday, or to the Tremont Theatre and laugh with and at Charlie Chaplin. Both propositions sound almost equally alluring; the decision is fraught with moment. His soul or his sense of humor, which shall it be? He must decide,--Ah, quick Watson, the skis...
McGrath, who has been playing on the College Humor baseball team in the West Indies during the Christmas Recess, is captain of this year's nine. He has been most prominent in the capacity of short stop and second base, and batted an average of .292. McGrath also won the bat last year...
...morals, even at its best not separated from theology, to a group of active thinkers, both metaphysical and ethical, who violently disagreed in their theories of knowledge, yet were the best of friends, is described in an undramatic fashion. If this and other accounts are slightly deficient in humor, they are nevertheless written without zeal. Perhaps Professor Palmer wholly appreciates the fate of those undergraduates of 30 years ago who year in, year out would listen to an empiricist like James tear down the frail web of idealism wrought by Royce or Palmer himself, only to witness the process reversed...