Word: jestingly
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...Glenn Frank (University of Wisconsin president), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio R. R. president), James Branch Cabell (author of Jurgen, The Cream of the Jest, etc.), Capt. William H. Stay ton (Association Against the Prohibition Amendment founder and president), Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (U. S. Supreme Court) and Dr. James McKeen Cattell (Editor of Science) were bracketed and equally recommended, as "six highly intelligent and industrious men . . . gentlemen," by Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury, for President...
...then he trieth to be gay, greeting all and sundry with a merry jest; but this, too, displeaseth some...
...even rudimentary principles; and as a critic he hasn't any esthetic standards." The Bookman accused him of commercialism, credited him with an uncanny flair for perceiving genius in unknown writers. "No one else in the world could have anticipated Jurgen by reading The Cream of the Jest." His wife, however, had this to say: "Well, he snores, grinds his teeth and moans in his sleep; but otherwise he is perfect." Mr. Rascoe likes to hear young writers' troubles, is enthusiastic, sociable, voluble. He has the long nose of intelligence; curly hair, bright eyes, rare words...
...oathsome brutality, lusty wine-quaffing, noisy swordplay, sly bedroom tactics, swoony madrigals, neurotic vengeance and gory fratricide of Medicean times, as set forth lavishly in The Jest by Playwright Sem Benelli, were last week introduced in Cleveland. It was the play's first U. S. performance outside of Manhattan, inevitably provoking whispered comparisons by those in the audience who had seen the John-and-Lionel-Barrymore production of 1919. But never were comparisons more idle. The occasion was the opening of the new home of the Cleveland Play House, an outstanding "little" theatre now made unique...
...current Senate's "investigating" record was defended by a testy, strutting Cyrano de Bergerac. "A great nose," the clown trumpeted through his own, "indicates a great Senate. . . . This convexity, this pimple of curiosity, this wart of circumspection, is indeed worthy of jest. I say these things about the Senate's nose lightly enough myself, but I shall allow none other to utter them...