Word: jestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sem Benelli, 72, Italy's on-again-off-again Fascist poet and playwright (The Jest), a leader with the late Luigi Pirandello in the modern Italian theater, veteran of Mussolini's 1935-36 march on Ethiopia (I Was in Africa); in Genoa...
Interior Minister Eduardo Salazar Gomez declared that the country was completely tranquil-so tranquil, in fact, that he permitted himself a jest: "We have jailed only those caught with their hands in stinking water...
...Farm (TIME, Feb. 4, 1946,) Orwell parodied the Communist system in terms of barnyard satire; but in 1984 (which, along with John Gunther's Behind the Curtain -see below-is the Book-of-the-Month Club's selection for July), there is not a smile or a jest that does not add bitterness to Orwell's utterly depressing vision of what the world may be in 35 years' time...
...Little Rock, the Arkansas Vital Statistics Bureau was asked to file a birth certificate which listed the mother's occupation as "cotton and children," the father's occupation as "jest settin...
...Jest. Near Bursa, Turkey, two passengers jumped from a speeding bus when a prankster, riding along in a coffin, raised...