Word: jesting
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None enjoyed this jest better than ponderous, granitic Roman Catholic Pierce Butler. The man who died alone in Washington's Garfield Memorial Hospital last week was as solid as arctic ice, but a friend to his friends, an honest foe to his foes, a tender father to his incurably ill daughter Margaret. Legends accumulated around softer men, not around Pierce Butler-except about his enthusiastic, notorious golf (he never broke 110), which he endured with almost masochistic resignation...
...back with nostalgia on the years when he was editor of the Socialist New York Call, from 1916 until 1922. He likes to thumb through old files of the Call, reread Eugene Debs's daily letters from prison, smile at advertisements announcing John and Lionel Barrymore in The Jest, cluck his tongue appreciatively at some of the best news reporting of another troubled...
Cream of the jest to these taxpayers was that, as is customary, they will receive not only their money back but interest on it at 6%-a lot bigger return than they could have got if they had invested in bonds...
...Negro handyman in Knoxville, who "jest don't care nothin' about a stiddy job." Says Joe: "The Lord cut me out in the shape of a man that's naturally made to have a good time. But he didn't give me the money to have that good time...