Word: jestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tanya was her name. She spoke not a word of English and my store-bought Russian was far too skimpy to convey all that I would have said to her. One beautiful August day, I haltingly invited her to flee with me to the United States. She returned the jest, pleading in mock-seriousness that it was I should flee with...
...FORTUNE. Their staffs are among the finest of any paper or magazine in the nation. It is Mr. Luce's responsibility to see that they present the news objectively as well as readably. But we suppose that Mr. Luce, were any such proposition presented him, would lean back and jest: "What's the matter? Running...
Dignified Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the dignified New York Times, once complained to an aide: "The only way I can get anything in this paper is to write a letter to the editor." His jest was almost but not literally true. Once, for example, he and Editor Charles Merz collaborated on a crossword puzzle that got into print. In last week's Sunday magazine section the boss scored again-with a quatrain modestly signed "A.H.S...
...healthfulness than about holy disease. We may amuse ourselves at the expense of the former, the fortunate children of nature and their artlessness; we cannot amuse ourselves at the expense of the children of the spirit, the great sinners and the damned. ... I would find it utterly impossible to jest about Nietzsche and Dostoevsky as I have occasionally done in a novel about the egotistic child of a lucky star, Goethe, and in an essay about the colossal loutishness of Tolstoy's moralism. It follows that my reverence for the intimates of Hell, the devout and the diseased...
...thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...