Word: jesting
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There is a certain charm about the curious costumes our grandmothers wore. They are also slightly ludicrous. Therefore the costumes in this entertainment fill a double role and help a lot. They are pleasant to look at and easy for the comedian to jest about. Beyond these costumes the piece is a trifle routine. The music, the jokes and the romance seem to reminisce too much...
...return address, "Drayton Hall, Room 100" is of course fictitious, and constitutes one of the reasons for the post office action. It also makes impossible the detection of the perpetrators of the jest. The current theory is that the questionnaire was sponsored by the Lampson as that is the organization most frequently suppressed in this locality...
Britannia seems unable to appreciate the jest. Court gossips said, "The King and Queen have been highly displeased. Immediate changes are to be made in His Royal Highness' retinue...
Here lies Ooo-Rah, misbegotten child of Wild and Foolish Frenzy, conceived in playfulness, nourished in jest, and brought forth still-born before an expectant world. Bred to thunder forth the fame of wounded heroes stricken on the field of glory, poor Ooo-Rah never wheezed a note. No single "Ooo" nor yet a "Rah" did Ooo-Rah bellow out in signal of a lusty birth. One long protracted hush proclaimed before an anxious multitude that Ooo-Rah's birth was also Ooo-Rah's death. So let him lie and rest in everlasting peace. And may this simple tribute...
...before heard in the U. S.: Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve, Spontini's Vestale (a work much admired by Wagner, which established Spontini's reputation in France in the early 19th century), Gioudano's La Cena delle Beffe, adapted from the play The Jest, and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. He raised the price of seats: ground floor, $8.25 from $7.70, "dress" circle $4.95 from...