Word: jestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although they are no substitute for homecooking, the U.S.O.-Camp Shows, by jeep and by jest, are now delivering much of the entertainment rations that G.I.s in Europe crave. As soon as conditions permit, the program in the Pacific Area will be stepped up, too. One professional company now there is playing Oklahoma! Wrote a grateful G.I.: "I'm glad I've joined the Army. I finally...
Home's Heritage. Young George went to country school, took part in spelling bees and won arithmetic contests, joined a debating society. Debate revolved around topics such as: "Resolved, That man is a free moral agent." One day, in jest, he proposed the topic: "Resolved. There is more pleasure in living with a neat, cross woman than with a good-natured, slouchy woman." In the rugged frontier, George Norris found there was no one who would defend the slouchy woman...
...sits down facing him, slapping his big hands down on both knees, leaning forward, all interest. He has presence. He is tall, handsome and prematurely white-haired. The color of his hair, and his quick rise to position, long ago gave him a nickname, not always spoken in jest: the White-Haired Boy. (Other nicknames: Little Stet, Mr. Statistics, Junior...
...lost the governorship by 109,000 votes, though Calvin Coolidge carried New York State by 870,000. From then on, Young Teddy never won an office. His two big political posts-Governor of Puerto Rico and Governor General of the Philippines-came to him by Presidential appointments. Later, the jest was that the Oyster Bay Roosevelts were out of season. He lived quietly in a $90,000 home he built in 1938 at Oyster Bay, served successively as board chairman of American Express and vice president of Doubleday, Doran...
Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson, military aide and special jester to President Roosevelt, got a feathery jest in his cap: the President made him "Principal Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Indians, Okla...