Word: jestingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast, most newspaper cartooning of the campaign has been dismally lacking in fun. For oldtime jest and jibe, most cartoonists have substituted grim seriousness, sullen partisanship. A charitable explanation is that the Roosevelt-Landon campaign has been a confused, bad-tempered one, and cartoonists have simply reflected the temper of their editors and readers...
...dailies Democrat Roosevelt gets his biggest brickbats from the Chicago Tribune and its Carey Cassius Orr. The Tribune's famed, aging John Tinney McCutcheon finds Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's rabid anti-New Dealism distasteful, ventures no further into politics than an occasional (Continued on p. 16) jest on the disparity of straw votes (TIME, Aug. 3). Gruff, one-eyed Cartoonist Orr does not hate Franklin Roosevelt either, simply considers him "despicable like a snake." He likes to picture the President as a Red, a would-be Hitler, a gorilla-like monster of Fear, Doubt and Ruin. Other...
Soon current in Wall Street was the jest that "the new kind of gold standard" is about as much like the gold standard as companionate marriage is like holy wedlock. What had actually been done was to make the dollar, pound and franc companionate currencies pegged from day to day at a common level, with Washington, London or Paris free on 24 hours' notice to pull the pegs...
President Dodds has shown that he meant no idle jest in his Opening Address when he deplored the "flask-toters and alcoholic" partisans who are mainly responsible for the exhibitions of ill-breeding which have become all too characteristic of intercollegiate football spectators...
...Knox and Chairmen Hamilton cannot be accused of the naivete of Hearst, and their irresponsible impeachments must be taken soley as a screen to hide their own mediocrity. The importance placed by the National Chairman upon David Dubinsky's position as an elector for the President is a Republican jest even funnier than most when one considers what the American eletoral college has long since become...