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...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...
...feature absent from your pages that the majority of American magazines have. I am referring to humor. Aside from all the serious matter that you print, I am sure that a humorous column would be an added asset to TIME, and I am herewith inclosing a sample copy of JEST AROUND THE CORNER, for consideration. It is submitted at your usual rates...
...majority of American magazines" TIME will leave the responsibility of supplying the U. S. with columns of humor. Extracts from "Jest Around the Corner...
...commanding the First Lancers Regiment to march twice around the Parliament Building in full war regalia. Having thus shown his physical encirclement of and contempt for the parliamentarians Pilsudski called off his troops, last week, retired into his palace, brooded upon whether to take in deadly earnest the jest of Opposition news organs which satirically hailed him as: "PILSUDSKI AUGUSTUS, IMPERATOR...
...James Whitcomb Riley once wrote: And there's Gene Debs, a man that stands And jest holds out in his two hands As warm a heart as ever beat 'Twixt here and jedgment seat...