Word: jestingly
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Once more have the police successfully accomplished the coup of towing from beneath the windows of sleeping students some thirty-five cars parked along the side of the street by their owners, all unwitting of the jest which was in the air. This drollery was perpetrated quite as a surprise, for forewarning of the intentions of the police would have spoiled the joke and frustrated their nocturnal escapade...
This bagatelle, we understand, was not imposed upon the student for the trifling operation of towing the car two blocks. It was for the privilege of participating in the jest...
...lower depths in steaming content. Wide faces waxed into full-mooned laughter. Behind the relentless mask of the Third International, beaked sardonic visages relaxed in a sour smile, as the Pravda, famed Bolshevist sheetlet, brought them welcome tidings of nauseous conditions beyond the seas. A joke, a Gargantuan jest, had just been found to be on someone else...
...twinkling zest of his round impish face, the shrewd pucker of his mobile mouth; they picture Peet as his twin, in all respects identical. For such are the eloquent small figures that have long capered in the advertising columns of theatre programs and daily newspapers, accompanied by a jest, a clothing suggestion and the name of the firm. Last week they began to caper in the press of Boston, informing Bostonians that the Rogers Peet Co. has just purchased the entire capital stock of Macullar, Parker and Co., gents outfitter, giving to that organization the name Rogers Peet...
...want any smart Alec tryin' to teach mah child that man descended from a tadpole or a monkey. . . . When a man gets so smart that he cain't believe the Bible, he's jest too smart to know that he's a fool...