Word: jests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feature absent from your pages that the majority of American magazines have. I am referring to humor. Aside from all the serious matter that you print, I am sure that a humorous column would be an added asset to TIME, and I am herewith inclosing a sample copy of JEST AROUND THE CORNER, for consideration. It is submitted at your usual rates...
...commanding the First Lancers Regiment to march twice around the Parliament Building in full war regalia. Having thus shown his physical encirclement of and contempt for the parliamentarians Pilsudski called off his troops, last week, retired into his palace, brooded upon whether to take in deadly earnest the jest of Opposition news organs which satirically hailed him as: "PILSUDSKI AUGUSTUS, IMPERATOR...
...James Whitcomb Riley once wrote: And there's Gene Debs, a man that stands And jest holds out in his two hands As warm a heart as ever beat 'Twixt here and jedgment seat...
...whether Her Majesty might accept a reputed offer to appear for a day before Hollywood cinema cameras as the Queen in Tolstoy's Resurrection-for $25,000. Said Her Majesty archly to newsgatherers: "I might perhaps have obtained a better engagement than that. But let us not jest! It is false, this report. Absolutely false...
...White House. It appears only to newspaper men and is known as the Official Spokesman. Out of its ectoplasmic mouth come the public bulls of the President of the United States. Time has made the reporters accustomed, though not resigned, to the Official Spokesman. Once a subject for jest, it has come to be accepted by them as a grim reality. Since the executive is speechless, and since someone must talk, the correspondents go weekly into a scance with the Official Spokesman...