Word: humouring
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...humour and wit of past Don Marquis stories are not lacking in his last novel, "Sons of the Puritans", concerning the life of a boy in the small-town atmosphere of Hazelton, Illinois. Still, the undercurrent which flows through the whole book is one of tragedy. For Marquis the tragic and comic are not conflicting elements, but intermingle to make up life itself...
...also stated that the Archbishop is "generally humorless." He would indeed be humourless if he had used the words attributed to him about being chief spokesman of God to his fellow countrymen. As a matter of fact, he has the keenest possible sense of humour (like most of his fellow Scotsmen) and is one of the most highly sought-after after dinner speakers in the whole of London...
...Twelve Apostles-- and his own aproned self down in one corner-- towers to the ceiling. After contemplating these Paul Kleinschmidt's twentieth-century "Tittering Woman," is irritating, although friends assure me that it too is art. But Albrecht Durer's "Geometry and Perspective", Nuremberg 1525, soon restores my good humour, and, at peace with myself and the world, I look out the window at the great bronze lion guarding the court...
...admire Don Juan? perhaps you like the serious parts best but I have been credibly informed that Lord B. is not really a great poet, have taken a sort of dislike to him when serious and only adore him for his wit and humour. I am by no means a great poetry reader. . . ." Later it comes out that "as my dear Keats did not admire Lord Byron's poetry as many people do, it soon lost its value...
...only thing that can be said is that Arliss is Arliss, and a poorer one than usual. His usually quizzical expression is frozen into a leering grimace and glassy stare by the awful grandeur of Waterloo. Platitudes fall more thickly than the cannon-balls, and the attempts at humour miss their mark as widely as do the French gunners. Not even the Tsar of Russia, the King of Prussia and the King of France can save this bit of historical mummery from utter deadliness. But even this shouldn't keep anyone away from "Liebelei...