Word: jested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...profound is the spiritual veneration of Italians for their quite literally "beloved Papa" (the Pope) that, where only the transient material world is concerned, a jest may be thus bandied between poet and Pope without creating the scandal which would ensue in Anglo-Saxon lands. During Holy Year (1925) carefree Latins were to be seen daily flinging banana skins and chocolate wrappers upon the floor of St. Peter's, and greeting the Pope when he appeared with just such excited squeals and shrieks as a large family of happy children bestow upon their temporal father...
Throughout the week material was found for many a jest in the reported similarity between D' Annunzio's "elixir" and Danish cherry brandy, a most powerful intoxicant...
...goal is to be reached, those who can be must be very generous. Your committee felt that if it circularized our 44,000 graduates without a preliminary sounding out for large subscriptions, the result would fall so far short that Harvard indifference would be a bitter jest when applied to a subject of such sacred sentiment as a memorial to its dead. Therefore so far we have approached only those who, in our judgment, were able, if they would, to give $5,000 or more, and as yet but few of those. It is our hope to make such progress...
...friends confusedly about-faced, recalled that Sir Robert used to dye his beard, remembered that Lord Birkenhead once called him "the only genuine dye-hard," advanced the press-trumpeted sensationalism that Sir Robert "made the Earl of Birkenhead pay £7,000,000 for a jest...
Augusta Victoria. Memories stimulated by this incident recalled that the late Kaiserin was one of the best intentioned and least fortunate of loving mothers, consorts, empresses. Her futile attempts to hold the fickle love or even the attention of Wilhelm II became a byword and a jest at court...