Word: jestingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Lewis jest: "I certainly congratulate you" (this to the Swedish Royal Family in general) "on keeping awake during that two-hour ceremony this morning...
...defense Eugenio Bassani pleaded: "I confess that I used the vulgar words these women have repeated in court, but I spoke in jest. By the Blessed Name of our Holy Mother, I swear that I spoke in jest...
...give U. S. citizens and Englishmen the impression that Mrs. Sarojini ("Death or Victory") Naidu is a particularly funny female joke. Naturally there is a sense in which scrawny St. Gandhi and his whole topsy turvy nonviolent struggle is history's most colossal and perhaps most dangerous jest...
...believe that all impartial observers will join with me in condemning you for a serious breach in printing without investigation or regard for the truth, an article concerning such a well known and widely respected figure and by giving publicity to a scurrilous jest, which would have been in bad taste eight months ago when the news was fresh. Apparently you have been waiting all this time to print it and now finally have found a flimsy excuse in a news item of no general interest...