Word: jestering
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...impishly, Edward of Wales appeared in evening dress with a red carnation, one night last week, thus setting London's impeccable chappies terribly agog. On the very next evening dozens of red carnations appeared in Mayfair, and smart women flattered their escorts by thrilling, "How adorably ghastly!" Meanwhile, however, Jester Wales, having had his floral joke,* was speeding nocturnally toward the north of England, to visit in grim earnest the stricken coal fields where a half-million miners are workless and nigh to starving (TIME...
...Manhattan, last week, a town jester named Peter Arno held his first art exhibit. Artist Arno is a social satirist. Frothier, less pungent than such satirists as Beerbohm and Bateman, he nevertheless makes sprightly comments on violations of taste and decorum. He lies in wait for those moments when civilized people burst through their shimmering camouflage of gentlity and blatantly expose rage, sex, silliness...
...greater" runs an old proverb, and it was with a similar thought in mind that the Cambridge police and fire chiefs cast glowering looks around the Gold Coast and the Lampoon Building, upon the occasion of a false alarum rung in, on the alarum box standing besides the Jester's tree at 11.20 0'clock last night...
...fields of current opinion and criticism the Advocate fulfills a new function of great potential value to the University without necessarily discarding its traditional role as a literary medium. The University has always had two faithful attendants who have been frank and unfailing in their critical endeavors. The Jester has ever been on hand as an antidote to undue seriousness, the Journalist has agitated, attacked, and decried. But for measured debate, for lengthy review, and for thoughtful satire the opportunities have been limited. The advent here of the Advocate must be an occasion for congratulation to every Harvard...
...have long been accustomed 'o see our mightiest fall victims to the Jester's darts at times we have even fell them ourselves and it cannot be said to be wholly unpleasant to see the nation's forensic Goliaths suddenly assailed by the local David. Not all of the slings and arrows are impeccably directed, but undeniably certain of them sink into the statistical efficiencies and brown derbies of the present campaign...