Word: jested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London signed a bill restoring capital punishment to the Kansas penal code. Therefore, when Kansas' current Governor, George Docking, recently commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of a brutal murder, he drew a sharp rap from Alf Landon, now 72. Last week, Docking, only half in jest, snapped: "If Landon likes capital punishment so well, we'll just offer him the job of state executioner at $100 a throw. I'll throw in free cigarettes." Replied Landon icily: "That comment sounds about as psychopathic as some of his other remarks...
...Lewis of the Los Angeles Fire Department interrupted his Sunday car wash last week to check on his wife, who had not felt well all morning. "Honey," said she, "I think I'm going to have a baby." In the spirit of what he thought was a jest, Lewis answered: "O.K., honey, you just go ahead and have one." Within 45 minutes...
...Honor Tracy's jape at the Irish, The Straight and Narrow Path. Too many other elements (including Yacky Doo's mawkish death) intrude on the story's essential mixture of fondness and malice. But Author Linklater's entertainment survives its flaws. His most effective jest is at the expense of the reader who, eager to read the imaginary Burns erotica, leafs ahead to find some. The novel is salted with verses, but most of them are Scots hymns...
...risk of destroying Reader Peters' humor, TIME translates his letter: "You say you want to jest? Either do not use the joke in our language, or do not translate it literally into your own and destroy...