Word: jestingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hints to Protege Terence had been enough to set him practicing Nero's every remembered gesture. Soon he was fit to be seen by everybody but his wife, who thought he had gone crazy. For a while everything went so well that Varro began to think his dangerous jest might even turn into safe reality...
From long practice Mr. Chamberlain knows, the advantage of cracking an early jest to distract his victims from the impending thumbscrew of his Budget revelations. Last year he said: "Perhaps I may liken this budget to the uncertain glories of an April Day." This year if he had drawn on the calendar for his opening banter he would have had to choose the month of November, so he changed his tack, orated: "It has been suggested that I tax bachelors, bicycles, cats, dogs, debutantes, fiction, loudspeakers and other things. . . . None of these things...
...sequence last year, dodders out as Mr. Willkie in a white wig to declaim: "The duplication of transmission systems and the giving of money from the Federal Treasury to cities to duplicate our distribution systems is undermining the credit of companies in the TVA area . . . destruction . . . inevitable . . . cruel jest." But by this time the sheer momentum of Playwright Arent's show has carried the day, dramatically at least, against Mr. Willkie. Concluding with the injunctions which currently are hamstringing TVA activity, Power closes on a solemn political note when the entire cast shouts: WHAT WILL THE SUPREME COURT...
...Lincoln was able to jest at his own failures is indicated in a humorous business card he had printed up following one of his political defeats. The card reads: "A Lincoln, Attorney and Councillor at Law, Springfield, Ill. To Whom It May Concern. My old customers and others are no doubt aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know that I will be back on the same side from which I started, on or before the 4th of March next, when I will be ready to Swap Horses, Dispense...
...unobtrusively-King Edward later evinced what seemed to be the part-owner of the Star a sense of humor "American" rather than "English." His Majesty was graciously pleased to utter to Mrs. Simpson's second cousin by marriage these words, related by Cousin Newbold as a merry royal jest...