Word: jestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jest Backfired...
...name of France, to cabinet ministers after hours. "The Frenchman's got no use for revolutions," the barber says in one pronouncement. "What the Frenchman wants is to earn a comfortable living, eat well, drink well and enjoy himself." But the cream of Author Aymé's jest is that his barber, his symbolic natural wise man, is a fool himself...
...friends) with surrealistic nightmares of horses invading ladies' bed-curtains and grim, grand-scale illustrations of Greek and Norse myths. To suggest the painter's impact on his time, Grigson quotes two of Fuseli's contemporaries. "His look is lightning, his word is thunder, his jest death and his vengeance hell," wrote one. "His neighborhood is unbearable." The other, a fellow artist, called him "a monster in design; his women are all strumpets, and his men all banditti, with the action of galvanized frogs [but] no man had the power like Fuseli of arousing the dormant spirit...
False pregnancy has sometimes been a subject for jest, but to doctors, who call it pseudocyesis, it is no laughing matter. Many general practitioners and some specialists have been fooled by women who seemed to be in labor but proved to be not even a little bit pregnant...
Married. James Branch Cabell, 71, 50-book Virginia author, whose refined preciosity, elaborately tortured allegory and subtly understated bawdry made his novels (Jurgen, The Cream of the Jest, Smirt, Smith, Smire, etc.) critical and popular favorites in the '20s and '30s; and Margaret Waller Freeman, 56, Manhattan interior decorator; he for the second time; in Richmond...