Word: joke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when I saw that nice big editorial in Monday's paper, I knew that it was just another joke...
...evening dress with a red carnation, one night last week, thus setting London's impeccable chappies terribly agog. On the very next evening dozens of red carnations appeared in Mayfair, and smart women flattered their escorts by thrilling, "How adorably ghastly!" Meanwhile, however, Jester Wales, having had his floral joke,* was speeding nocturnally toward the north of England, to visit in grim earnest the stricken coal fields where a half-million miners are workless and nigh to starving (TIME...
...quite a mile, but an awfully long grin, anyway. Just to show you what I mean, Old Lummy ("Arthur") Welsbach the cook is, at this moment, sticking toothpicks into potatoes to make little men out of them, little men which he will stand on the table as a joke to the crew when they come down to "grub," and the laugh that will greet this prank is as good as given, written up, and wirelessed already. Such a laugh as it will be! Yesterday we saw some gulls, but we just laughed...
Most recently, Lawyer Longley has been in London, organizing the English Ford corporation, biggest of all automobile corporations established on the other side of the Atlantic, with a stock issue of $35,000,000. It was not Lawyer Longley's fault that Manhattan bankers played a joke on Mr. Ford by buying the stock which Mr. Ford had intended for British ownership...
...Harris Amendment was not a part of the League's plan. It had come up suddenly as the solemn rebuke to a joke. Since it gave a fortune to Secretary Mellon, Mr. Mellon had written a letter about it. And Mr. Mellon had said he didn't want the money. Enforcement, wrote he, needed study. Ways must be found to perfect coast guarding, to relieve court congestion (at present 21,000 cases await trial), to improve enforcement personnel. Mr. McBride looked over this letter and was inclined to agree with...