Word: jesting
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...silver screen today was the touchstone for a truly inspiriting burst of applause. It was almost as if the new era had not already become the old one, and brought back many memories of the days before the Geheimrat was a grand symbol of spoof, a kind of national jest in apostolic succession to the mother-in-law. Castor diagnosed this as a popular reaction to personal success after personal failure, a sense of comfortable relief among us that he will not be the traditional ex-president, heavy on the national conscience, a kind of standing threat to the President...
...CASE OF THE APRIL FOOLS-Christopher Bush-Morrow ($2). Ludovic Travers sees jest turned to murder. Blackmail leads to double death...
Members of Manila's "American Colony" whose livelihoods and fortunes are wrapped in doomed hemp, sugar cane and copra looked forward to nothing save economic chaos under the intermediate government and after. They dolefully recalled the words often repeated more in earnest than in jest to U. S. military folk by rich Filipinos: "Amiga, when the last boatload of your soldiers is about to leave, tell me. I want to be on the boat before...
...worst is its slowness in taking a jest...
...country at large. Before the conventions he drew a memorable picture entitled "The Mysterious Powerless Phenomenon" in which Governor Roosevelt, hugging Miss 1932, sped by the Party Powers in an old buggy with empty shafts. Because his work is widely syndicated, Cartoonist Darling considers it his prime duty to jest on all subjects, to produce a smile before delivering a partisan thrust...