Word: jested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britannia seems unable to appreciate the jest. Court gossips said, "The King and Queen have been highly displeased. Immediate changes are to be made in His Royal Highness' retinue...
Here lies Ooo-Rah, misbegotten child of Wild and Foolish Frenzy, conceived in playfulness, nourished in jest, and brought forth still-born before an expectant world. Bred to thunder forth the fame of wounded heroes stricken on the field of glory, poor Ooo-Rah never wheezed a note. No single "Ooo" nor yet a "Rah" did Ooo-Rah bellow out in signal of a lusty birth. One long protracted hush proclaimed before an anxious multitude that Ooo-Rah's birth was also Ooo-Rah's death. So let him lie and rest in everlasting peace. And may this simple tribute...
...before heard in the U. S.: Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve, Spontini's Vestale (a work much admired by Wagner, which established Spontini's reputation in France in the early 19th century), Gioudano's La Cena delle Beffe, adapted from the play The Jest, and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. He raised the price of seats: ground floor, $8.25 from $7.70, "dress" circle $4.95 from...
Once more have the police successfully accomplished the coup of towing from beneath the windows of sleeping students some thirty-five cars parked along the side of the street by their owners, all unwitting of the jest which was in the air. This drollery was perpetrated quite as a surprise, for forewarning of the intentions of the police would have spoiled the joke and frustrated their nocturnal escapade...
This bagatelle, we understand, was not imposed upon the student for the trifling operation of towing the car two blocks. It was for the privilege of participating in the jest...