Word: jested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this in anything but jest...
...only thing really wrong with G & S's Yeomen of the Guard is that it will be so hard to get tickets for it. Usher your way in if you have to. G & S, like Jack Point, are ready to "jest you, jibe you, crank you, wrack you and riddle you," and the tremendous finesse with which they manage the whole operation will leave you as exhilarated as poor Jack Point...
...comprise less attack and counter-attack than in several recent years. The Yale band presents a bawdy description of the current national state of affairs, while Harvard's program claims as alumni a variety of historical figures ranging from Moses to Shakespeare, in a routine perceived more as humorous jest than pretension, at least by those from Harvard and Yale. Still, both bands find opportunities for genial sparring. Yale's marchers form a huge drum and carry a fifteen-foot-long drumstick across the field while bemoaning the pitiful size of much of Harvard's equipment. And the Harvard band...
...question came from someone I didn't know well it always seemed excessively personal. More annoying, although it generally comes from better friends, is the off-hand comment like "How does it feel to be the son of a fascist?" Until today, it was never said completely in jest. Now it is said as if the rejoinder "Isn't everyone?" is understood. Either way, I don't like...
...driven him out of Zurich. His intransigence grew with time, ripening into the melancholy sarcasm that was one of his more noted traits. "He is everything in extremes-always an original," wrote Fuseli's close friend, the physiognomist Lavater. "His look is lightning, his word a thunderstorm; his jest is NATIONAL PORT death, his revenge hell." Even Goethe, who met Fuseli in Rome in 1775, agreed with that. "What fire and fury the man has in him!" he exclaimed in a letter...