Word: jested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anything funny in one man hitting another in the seat of what they termed "pants." In their day the seat of the, pardon us, trousers was a disciplinary objective; they refused, to admit the right of Charles Chaplin to make it simply the butt of a jest...
...Leigh Mallory described the attempt to ascend Mount Everest which took place last May. Professor Theodore Lyman '97, president of the Harvard Travelers' Club, introduced the speaker. Mr. Mallory introduced his speech by asking "What is the purpose of climing Mount Everest?" He answered his question by saying in jest tha tit was of no use other than to fulfill the desire of geologists for a stone from the summit and to show physiologists at just what altitude human life became impossible...
...enough of this sort of jest is enough, and incidentally, the ability to appreciate the joke does not decide anything definite about the relative merits of the two teams. The game will be played today, the heavens permitting, or Saturday, but wherever finally staged, in New Haven or at the Polo Grounds, it will be a Harvard-Yale game, and as such worth waiting for a week...
...morning with a regular sensational news-story. These little irregularities are always a temptation for the would-be humorist, and the editors were tempted to use a red-ink screamer headline, with three-column photographs of the culprits. But the present case in by no means a matter for jest. The backwash of a world-wide crime wave has reached our peaceful community, and the list of victims is growing daily. Reports of petty and larger thefts come in steadily; swindling is not uncommon; suspicious characters are frequently seen about the dormitories...
Boston, affirms a time-worn jest, is not a place but a state of mind. If this be so,--and some foundation must exist for the adage,--the query next follows: what is this state of mind? Intellectual, many will reply; Puritanical, others may suggest; or unbalanced, the sarcastic might intimate. But judging a cross-section of the populace--as exhibited at the theatre, for example--one receives the impression that the true state is irresponsible levity...