Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia studio as soon as the publishers decided that Mrs. Porter's mantle was to descend upon her. Said she: "I have the same outlook on life [as Mrs. Porter] -a wholesome and cheerful outlook - and I flatter myself that I, too, have a sense of humor...
...disputatious if she would. Her essays are among the most polished, civilized, smooth-flowing products of contemporary pens. Her erudition is always so glossed over with silken-smooth phrasing that one does not at once compass its depth. In addition, she has a quick little poniard of deft humor, a keen sense of values...
...sketches themselves at times are rather forced to beat a dishpan to excite humor. But Winnie Lightner, abetted by the insouciant Will Mahoney and the boisterous Patricola, carries them along by dint of magnet ic personality, sometimes called high animal spirits. And the revue contains two of the best travesties on darky melodies ever perpetrated...
...people of Paris have a curious sense of humor and no matter how tragic a circumstance may be they can always find in it de quoi rire...
...about the hearth among our homespun neighbors and say thus he spoke and thus we answered." But in spite of all this, or very likely because of it, he has transcribed an altogether delightful account of this picturesque ramble. He insists, through blithe pages sprinkled with woodcuts and quiet humor, on sharing with his reader everything from the smell of quaint, stagecoachy old inns to a "stomach-ache acquired delightfully on Devon strawberries...