Word: jesting
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...sudden, old Ruby changed his tune. . . . He lit into them keys like a thousand of brick. He give 'em no rest, day or night. He set every living joint in me agoing, and not being able to stand it no longer, I jumped spang into my seat and jest hollered: 'Go it, my Rube!' Every blamed man, woman and child in the house riz on me, and shouted...
Britons last week could only hope that the Ghost of Christmas Present would provide a transformation for them, as it had for Scrooge. Instead, they chuckled grimly over a bitter Christmas jest, "Starve with Strachey, shiver with Shin-well" (Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell)*, watched the delivery of the King's traditional gift of a hundredweight of coal to the needy of four Windsor parishes, read hungrily about the progress of a British freighter, the Highland Monarch, as it butted through the foggy Atlantic. Aboard were 250,000 turkeys from Argentina, which would help feed many a hungry Briton this...
Tanya was her name. She spoke not a word of English and my store-bought Russian was far too skimpy to convey all that I would have said to her. One beautiful August day, I haltingly invited her to flee with me to the United States. She returned the jest, pleading in mock-seriousness that it was I should flee with...
...FORTUNE. Their staffs are among the finest of any paper or magazine in the nation. It is Mr. Luce's responsibility to see that they present the news objectively as well as readably. But we suppose that Mr. Luce, were any such proposition presented him, would lean back and jest: "What's the matter? Running...
Dignified Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the dignified New York Times, once complained to an aide: "The only way I can get anything in this paper is to write a letter to the editor." His jest was almost but not literally true. Once, for example, he and Editor Charles Merz collaborated on a crossword puzzle that got into print. In last week's Sunday magazine section the boss scored again-with a quatrain modestly signed "A.H.S...