Word: jesting
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...Harvard Lampoon hit too hard, or are academic communities abnormally thin-skinned? At royal courts the function of the king's fool was to rush in where statesmen feared to tread. It was recognized as one needful to the safety of monarchy itself. The true word spoken in jest might be the salvation of the throne. Shall opinion in a modern university be more autocratic than monarchy, and revoke the jester's license...
...small nation. But all the treaties of civilization have not been able to outface primitive necessity. Why hope for anything better under the spire of a single morgue of past successes--and failures in the endless striving? At best the Peace Museum is a feeble hope; at worst, a jest...
...question was precipitated by a jest. Many weeks ago Maryland's bumbling Bruce moved in the Senate that 270 millions, in addition to the customary 13 million dollars, be voted for Federal enforcement. Since Senator Bruce detests Prohibition, his motion was deemed ironic. However, as the irony was labored, it was also painful. After enduring for many days the taunts of the Wets, a Democratic Senator from Georgia, who is usually harmless, but who is a passionate Dry, arose and said, yes, more money ought to be appropriated to Prohibition, but let it be the reasonable sum of 25 millions...
...course famed and lovable H. G. Wells has not written any "Book on Loneliness." The jest went deeper than that. Its sly allusion-perfectly understood by almost every Briton, except innocent old ladies-was to a new and sensationally suppressed novel, The Well of Loneliness, by Miss Radclyffe Hall...
Waiter Brown: "Here is one with jest a little more brown on top. The pies with crust on 'em were ate by the Secret Service...