Word: jests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Told discreetly at the Foreign Office, last week, was the tale of a jest cracked by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, last fortnight, when he and Prime Minister Poincare were earnestly consulting how to reconstruct the fallen Government (i.e., Cabinet...
...everyone knows, stockmarketeers in Manhattan's Wall Street are traditionally tense. But it would be a mistake to suppose they never joke or jest. A typical Wall Street joke...
...Author of La Gena delle Befle which came to the U. S. as The Jest and starred John Barrymore: later lathered with theatric lines by Umberto Giordano and given as an opera...
When one speaks of "Lady Peel'' one correctly refers to either: 1) Ella Viscountess Peel, prim; or 2) Beatrice Lillie, flippant. It was the latter Lady Peel, of course, who recently originated the jest of calling every U. S. citizen residing west of Manhattan a "Middlie Westie...
...President, a man of much sly humor, was pleased with the country's surprise. He knew that as people began to learn about his mysterious friend it would gradually dawn on them how unusually "logical" and defensible an appointment it was. Not the thinnest cream of the jest would be when newspaper readers and editors discovered that the "unknown's" name has appeared daily for many years on the front pages of leading U. S. newspapers-in the tiny bottom-line advertisements which say: "When you think of Writing, think of Whiting." The personal phase of the appointment...