Word: jesting
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...lost the governorship by 109,000 votes, though Calvin Coolidge carried New York State by 870,000. From then on, Young Teddy never won an office. His two big political posts-Governor of Puerto Rico and Governor General of the Philippines-came to him by Presidential appointments. Later, the jest was that the Oyster Bay Roosevelts were out of season. He lived quietly in a $90,000 home he built in 1938 at Oyster Bay, served successively as board chairman of American Express and vice president of Doubleday, Doran...
Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson, military aide and special jester to President Roosevelt, got a feathery jest in his cap: the President made him "Principal Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Indians, Okla...
...expendables this week--our dog tags have arrived! Of course Elder's displays his COOP instead of file number, Hope lists type blood, and that's L. G., not N. G. Peterson. But barring all holds, Oh Ancient One, we are now entitled to that "metal' pay you jest about...
...their homes Norwegians heard of the Propaganda Minister's death from the German-controlled Oslo radio. Their grim jest: the ferryboat skipper had "made those dives to be sure the car doors were locked...
...authority on general information" he told his Jap employers, and left it at that. He made a point of plain speaking to his bosses, combining truth with tact and he got along well with the diplomats, being, in his own archaic phrase, "in nowise timorous and also capable of jest...