Word: joke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cover caricature," states, "I was highly pleased with the entire magazine, and consider the issue a distinct achievement in the field of journalism. The entire 'Froth' staff should be commended upon it, and I took the reference to myself in the manner intended, that of an excellent joke...
...week, there were varying comments on this feast of fake fatalities and free-for-all ballyhoo. Some criticised the apparent foolishness of the press. Others gave great praise to Press-agent Irving Strouse. They said: "Certain flowers have a brief but repetitive bloom; likewise a fashion, a joke, a publicity stunt. Press-agent Strouse was clever in that he accurately gauged the precise degree of reportorial gullibility; newshawks are perhaps to be excused for supposing that no one would dare attempt so blatant a hoax in the hope of practicing a deception. Press-agent Strouse indubitably won the game...
Friends staked their "Dis" to a country manor, terraced. "My dear lady, you cannot have a terrace without peacocks!"?this to his adored wife, whom Author Maurois variously records as 15, 12, 14 years his senior. Affectionate, loyal, her garrulous naivete was the joke of London. In a conversation about Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) she asked his address to invite him to dinner. But her cultured husband remembered: "She believed in me when men despised...
...been more work done in Cambridge, in and out of the library, than has been customary at such a time. Whatever the casualty list from the examinations may be, whatever the attitude of the average student may have been, the Reading Period has not been taken as a joke...
Goodwin then stated that he had considered the ridiculing of the sacred Bay State "minnow" as a joke. "But it is no joke to mutilate a number plate: that man who has evidently hammered the fish out of his plate must pay $1--that may be expensive for a minnow but it's not too much for a codfish," he chuckled...