Word: jocular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Hastings' Conductor Harrison began to feel he had struck a shockingly wrong note. Sputtered he: "The London press have made a mountain out of this molehill. I made a semi-jocular remark to a local press correspondent to the effect that the Siegfried Line is not calculated to make concert goers queue up for a performance of the Siegfried Idyll. I am thinking of putting the matter in the hands of my solicitors...
...year of extravagant ballyhoo on the part of his manager, shrewd Oldtimer Joe Jacobs, Two-Ton Tony (weight 233!) was given his chance against the best prizefighter in the world, Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis. Not in years had a world's championship heavyweight match been given such a jocular press. Boxing experts noted that 29-year-old Galento had been around for eleven years, had been defeated 22 times, was a slow-moving human tub whose boxing technique consisted of roughhouse butting, wrestling, sticking thumbs in opponents' eyes. They agreed that the little fat man had nothing...
Photoelectrically controlled Bessemer steel is mainly due to a man with a jocular drawl, who likes to fish, take photographs of steel mills, put his feet on his desk. His name is Herbert W. Graham and J. & L. got him fresh from Lehigh University in 1914. He once told his research staff that, instead of 200 bright ideas a year, he would rather have two ideas that worked. In 1934 smart Metallurgist Graham persuaded J. & L. to let him build a complete miniature pilot mill to try out new metallurgical ideas. In this mill he developed...
...have more to say tomorrow. Finally, the latest reports indicate that the University has successfully weathered the Chicago fire and is coming forth today with Bing Crosby in "Paris Honeymoon." Concerning, of course, neither Paris nor a honeymoon, it is nevertheless in the approved Crosby manner--casual, sophisticated, sentimental, jocular...
First thing Rube did was to ask the Sun for hints on editorial policy. He was given a list of orthodox Republican likes and dislikes, touched up with a heavily jocular postcript: "Dear Rube: We also in theory favor truth and beauty and oppose rape and cannibalism...