Word: humouring
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...somehow his greatness is taken for granted, but there is a dreadful conspiracy of silence and neglect. A vote taken in any company of ordinary students of literature would reveal that the group was more or less acquainted with the comedies: e.g., "The Alchemist", "Volpone", "Every Man in his Humour", but only the ambitious souls who sit up all night with the heroines of Voltaire, to use Lytton Strachey's phrase, would confess to having read "Sejanus" or "Catiline...
...Comes my taylor's man in the morning, and brings my suit home, and all a bubble to tell how handsome it be. Whereupon, after much ado, feeling he hath won my humour, he did present the bill which being so large I swore not to pay. But he, with much technique, did win me over. I, much vexed; for such business doth displease me; and was glad at my heart...
...that , owing to some confusion which arose regarding the attendance of Radcliffe Graduate students in Harvard courses, every one must present a pink slip to the instructor. It occurred to your Criminal, however, that the incident might be misunderstood; consequently he turns to that never failing source of undergraduate humour, whimsy, and downright Crime, The Widner stacks...
Miss Moore's talents are given more than adequate support by the suave charm of Tullio Carminati, the explosive humour of Louis Alberni, and the truly excellent technical and musical work which have been expended on this picture. Despite these other virtues, however, the film is all Miss Moore's. The plot is simple and straightforward and has the great advantage of providing Miss Moore with the maximum opportunity for using her voice. She sings all sorts of music ranging from the modern "One Night of Love" to the difficult last act aria of Madame Butterfly all with finished technique...
Lawrence was not the only British officer working among the Arabs. For his colleagues he wrote a paper of good advice on The Art of Handling Arabs. Some of his "27 Articles": "Cling tight to your sense of humour. . . . They make no special allowances for you when you dress like them. You will be like an actor in a foreign theatre, playing a part day and night for months, without rest, and for an anxious stake. . . . Do not think from their conduct that they are careless [about religion]. Their conviction of the truth of their faith, and its share...