Word: jesting
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When one speaks of "Lady Peel'' one correctly refers to either: 1) Ella Viscountess Peel, prim; or 2) Beatrice Lillie, flippant. It was the latter Lady Peel, of course, who recently originated the jest of calling every U. S. citizen residing west of Manhattan a "Middlie Westie...
...President, a man of much sly humor, was pleased with the country's surprise. He knew that as people began to learn about his mysterious friend it would gradually dawn on them how unusually "logical" and defensible an appointment it was. Not the thinnest cream of the jest would be when newspaper readers and editors discovered that the "unknown's" name has appeared daily for many years on the front pages of leading U. S. newspapers-in the tiny bottom-line advertisements which say: "When you think of Writing, think of Whiting." The personal phase of the appointment...
Though the jest seemed a trifle obscure, it had its elements of daring, for the Foreign Minister might have been referring to his Queen, his Country or both, or neither. On the whole, Jonkheer Beelaerts appeared content with his pleasantry, for he plunged at once into crisp, forthright comment: "True, gentlemen, we are adjusting a frontier dispute with our good Belgian friends. ... If I may say so without offense, it is the product of the War mentality. Belgium is claiming the two provinces lying south of the Scheldt river on the ground, that it would give them the control...
...Maritime Club it was reported that one of the yachts from the U. S. had been sighted. King Alfonso leaped in a launch and put-putted out into the bay. Twenty minutes later, he came back and shouted through a megaphone: "It's only a tourist's yacht. Good jest...
...instant the brow of the Prime Minister was stern, beetled, then he seemed to remember a very good jest, beamed, chuckled, "No, no, M. Bergery. You asked me to be your second-your best man-at your first marriage. I refused you then. I still refuse...