Word: funs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a marked lack of enthusiasm the crowd in the corridor took the Senator's statement and picture, and then settled down to some fun with the Willard's diminutive bellhop, Joe Johnson, posing him in innumerable belligerent attitudes defending the door against all comers. After exhausting the possibilities of Joe Johnson, who informed them that he had once been photographed perched on Primo Camera's arm, the reporters and newsmen gleefully learned that the Willard was serving them free lunch and liquor. They ate in shifts, later took turns in a poker game, for any opening...
...yards of each other. As her young husband was sawed from the wreckage, young Widow Kling said sadly: "Today was Rudy's 29th birthday. ... I guess he died the way he would have wanted to. He worked hard running our garage and about the only real fun he had was when he got away from the business with his planes...
...Judge, nation's oldest humor monthly, 1937 has not been funny. Harry Hart, when he founded it in 1881, confessed: "I have started this magazine for fun. Money is no object; let sordid souls seek that." No sordid soul but a top-notch syndicator, General Manager Monte Bourjaily resigned from United Feature Syndicate last September, bought Judge to have fun & make money. He found Judge's financial ill health too much ingrained. When Life disappeared as a comic weekly and reappeared as a picture magazine. Judge lost a competitor besides acquiring old Life's circulation and features...
With a show of fun and frankness unusual in his stereotyped profession, a San Francisco pressagent lately wrote: "When you come right down to it, a great World's Fair is the architect's form of that good old American custom, the Binge. . . . He can work in the realm of pure fantasy without worrying much about his client's idea of how a building ought to look, because he is using (perhaps happily) impermanent materials and because his real client is the general public, and what the general public wants is not utility, but romance and beauty...
...great reward, aside from the fun of playing for the game's sake, and that is frequently beaten out of the most ardent devotees of the sport in the first weeks of practice, is the thrill that follows an earned victory. Often this year that thrill was snatched from the team by a run of bad luck, the like which hardened sports writers admitted they had not seen in many years...