Word: jested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question was precipitated by a jest. Many weeks ago Maryland's bumbling Bruce moved in the Senate that 270 millions, in addition to the customary 13 million dollars, be voted for Federal enforcement. Since Senator Bruce detests Prohibition, his motion was deemed ironic. However, as the irony was labored, it was also painful. After enduring for many days the taunts of the Wets, a Democratic Senator from Georgia, who is usually harmless, but who is a passionate Dry, arose and said, yes, more money ought to be appropriated to Prohibition, but let it be the reasonable sum of 25 millions...
...course famed and lovable H. G. Wells has not written any "Book on Loneliness." The jest went deeper than that. Its sly allusion-perfectly understood by almost every Briton, except innocent old ladies-was to a new and sensationally suppressed novel, The Well of Loneliness, by Miss Radclyffe Hall...
Waiter Brown: "Here is one with jest a little more brown on top. The pies with crust on 'em were ate by the Secret Service...
...stocks on the Big Board, Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. has been the dullest and dreariest. Back in 1919, it cost $2.85 a share; in 1923, one could buy it for 25?. But for the most part, it hovered around $1. And there, for a jest, three potent stockmarketeers bought it in large blocks as the wittiest of all possible Christmas gifts to their wives...
Thus stockmarketeers wives savored the cream of Wall Street's typical, traditional jest...