Word: jesting
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Trumpeters blew welcome from the stage, a standard bearer struck the first note of color and 50 singers in Renaissance dress, filed on. Conductor Sandro Benelli (brother of Poet Sem Benelli, author of The Jest) put them through their paces, helped them find pianissimos ineffably tender, failed to tie up smoothly whole sheafs of measures...
...hardly add that I never uttered many of the observations, some of them extremely foolish, attributed to me in these diaries. But that is the way of most diarists, and I have suffered a good deal in the last few years from a variety of them. Words used in jest are treated as if in earnest; words seriously used are torn from their context and therefore having a different meaning, the essentially qualifying phrases invariably being omitted; and then in the inevitable defects of human memory when sentences taken from conversations which lasted an hour or two are casually recorded...
...Washington Treaty ratio became the theme of many a jest. When U. S. Chief Delegate Gibson and British Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe returned from an informal golf match they waggishly remarked that their scores were "in the 5-5 ratio...
...Unknown (Lon Chaney). Although his penchant for weird roles has occasioned many a jest,* audiences are beginning to realize that Lon Chaney stands on a pedestal of Hollywood, the one actor dedicated to the serious grotesque. His most recent incarnation is Alonzo, armless wonder of a traveling circus. In reality a full-bodied man, Alonzo straps himself into deformity in order to conceal from a hounding police that the double-thumbed hand identified with a notorious murder is his own. So accustomed is he to eating, drinking, smoking with his toes, that even when free from the straps, his hands...
...such jest: "Don't step on that spider! It might be Lon Chaney...