Word: jesting
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...that obituaries for every aging public man, from Andrew William Mellon, 72, to Chauncey Mitchell Depew, 92, lie ready in the desks of most editors. Why not print them as their subjects reach the age of 70? Messrs. Mellon, Depew, and many another cheerful bigwig would relish well the jest. Would not many a reader prefer to scan while his idol is yet in the quick those shrewd estimates of attainment, and compendiums of little known facts reserved by custom for obituaries...
...profound is the spiritual veneration of Italians for their quite literally "beloved Papa" (the Pope) that, where only the transient material world is concerned, a jest may be thus bandied between poet and Pope without creating the scandal which would ensue in Anglo-Saxon lands. During Holy Year (1925) carefree Latins were to be seen daily flinging banana skins and chocolate wrappers upon the floor of St. Peter's, and greeting the Pope when he appeared with just such excited squeals and shrieks as a large family of happy children bestow upon their temporal father...
Throughout the week material was found for many a jest in the reported similarity between D' Annunzio's "elixir" and Danish cherry brandy, a most powerful intoxicant...
...leered as he mouthed that name. Mr. Conkling is a roving gas engineer who plays the violin. Mrs. Sidney Erskine Brewster, petite and 26, did not guard the letters he wrote her with discretion. Mr. Brewster, 29, was an aviator, Manhattan scion, grew not to perceive the jest, killed his wife as she was dressing for dinner clad only in her chemise, killed himself. What editor or printer's devil in the U. S. does not know that? But what editor asked: "Who is Roscoe Platt Conkling? A descendant of 19th Century Manhattan Republican Boss Roscoe Conkling? A namesake...
...goal is to be reached, those who can be must be very generous. Your committee felt that if it circularized our 44,000 graduates without a preliminary sounding out for large subscriptions, the result would fall so far short that Harvard indifference would be a bitter jest when applied to a subject of such sacred sentiment as a memorial to its dead. Therefore so far we have approached only those who, in our judgment, were able, if they would, to give $5,000 or more, and as yet but few of those. It is our hope to make such progress...