Word: jested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foaming schooner. "Your health!" he tasted the foam, then left the glass up on the bar where eager hands seized, drained it. "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" roared the bums. Perhaps abashed, Edward drifted toward the door, passed through the crowd with several handshakes and a jest. Thend sought a moment's respite...
What if he would soon be 81? Did he not say recently in jest: "So, so! My tasks are nearly done. I have only to live until I find a wife for our five-year-old Crown Prince Peter" (TIME, May 10). The sap was running strong in M. Pashitch yet, it seemed. When he rode away to the Royal Palace it must have been to accept the Premiership for the twelfth time. Pashitch would take the helm. Everything would be all right...
...Moslems of the British raj in India. Even the late President Roosevelt sought the influence of the Aga Kahn to tranquilize certain Mohammedan tribes in the Philippines. Now the great Khan to whom the Powers render tribute was bidding for a diamond. Turning to the auctioneer he condescended to jest. "Four thousand nine hundred and fifty pounds," he said...
...Broadway saw The Jest, a gruesome melodrama of mediaeval Florence in the time of Lorenzo, the Magnificent. With swaggering desperadoes, vengeful noblemen, witching ladies, it embodies the virtues and vices of pronounced melodrama...
...majority of American magazines" TIME will leave the responsibility of supplying the U. S. with columns of humor. Extracts from "Jest Around the Corner...