Word: jape
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terrific crash in the darkened ballroom of the New Willard Hotel in Washington startles the President of the U. S.. his Cabinet, Class A senators and congressmen, prime foreign envoys, many a tycoon of business and politics. Suddenly a jester rushes in upon them with the first jape to start one of the Washington newsmen's famed gridiron club dinners...
...that he took back nothing he had said about the Senate rules. This time it was Charles Curtis and his little vice presidential speech that the Dawesian diatribe dwarfed. But where embarrassment was four years ago, there was only laughter this time. It was a self-burlesque, a Dawesian jape...
...Said jokesters, jape-makers: "Paavo Nurmi did not run!" (Paavo Nurmi is, as everyone knows, the famed Finnish runner, who in the past seven weeks has established 26 new world's records, competing...
Pride, a dismayed figure, is not permitted to obscure his mortification in the mire toward which, a witless moment back, he strutted, but is caught midway in his tumble, for all posterity to jape...