Word: jests
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...friends confusedly about-faced, recalled that Sir Robert used to dye his beard, remembered that Lord Birkenhead once called him "the only genuine dye-hard," advanced the press-trumpeted sensationalism that Sir Robert "made the Earl of Birkenhead pay £7,000,000 for a jest...
Augusta Victoria. Memories stimulated by this incident recalled that the late Kaiserin was one of the best intentioned and least fortunate of loving mothers, consorts, empresses. Her futile attempts to hold the fickle love or even the attention of Wilhelm II became a byword and a jest at court...
...JEST-Sem Benelli's cruel Italian portrait brought back with Basil Sydney in the lead...
...JEST - Color and cruelty of Italian intrigue interpreted by Basil Sydney and Violet Heming...
...generous gesture from Milwaukee indeed resolves itself into an ironic absurdity a very ordinary bourgeoise jest. The wet Senators, unfortunately for them, will come out of the small end of the drinking horn--very dry, for it is far from the realms of possibility that the Prohibition elders will allow their erring brethren the excuse for any such delightful legalistic temporizing. Prohibition has come, prohibition shall stay; and the joke is on the American Tantalus...