Word: jested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cream of the jest to these taxpayers was that, as is customary, they will receive not only their money back but interest on it at 6%-a lot bigger return than they could have got if they had invested in bonds...
...Negro handyman in Knoxville, who "jest don't care nothin' about a stiddy job." Says Joe: "The Lord cut me out in the shape of a man that's naturally made to have a good time. But he didn't give me the money to have that good time...
...months later Lord heard from her again. Her conscience was bothering her. She was not Mollie Ticklepitcher at all, as Mr. Lord had so kindly supposed, but an actress with a tank town stock company. Only truth in her jest : she did have...
...Often a jest by the ebullient Göring reflects what he knows to be in the mind of his friend Hitler, who seldom jokes. To the solemn Führer it is an unanswerably simple proposition that Britain should be willing to give him tit for tat. Tat is the Treaty of 1935 by which the German Navy was limited to 35% of the size of the British Navy, plus the Treaty of 1937 by which qualitative limitation of the two navies with respect to each other was fixed. Tit would be the ratio at which, after diplomatic trading...
This was more than jest. Mr. John Whelan Dulanty, the High Commissioner in London for the Irish Free State, was reported last week ready to observe the coming into effect of the de Valera Constitution next week by assuming his new title "High Commissioner for Ireland"-i.e. by implication for all Ireland, including not only the Free State but also Ulster. Mr. Dulanty was reported to have taken delivery of letterheads with his new title. Next week under its new Constitution the Irish Free State will also drop its present title and style itself "Ireland...