Word: joke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These saber-rattling gentry must have their joke. I suppose Lieutenant Turner would "point with pride" to the Negro gob who was mauled by Italians for tearing up Italian money while he sang: "She smacks me, she smacks me not!" [TIME, April 12, ITALY.] There's a "significant" U.S. sailor...
...Gentle Joke." A few hours after the "incident," Premier Mussolini drove unconcerned to a Cabinet meeting. To his Ministers, still desperately uneasy lest his wound should prove serious, he said with a smile...
...Calm yourselves. It is just a gentle joke with a pistol shot...
...fifty and to be paid for when you're caught, and so forth. But as I stood up to remark when you let fall the receiver etc. your once and always girl friend has a new one. Looks, dance--he was mayor of Charleston before Coolitch, which is no joke, and hair, dandruf, wood ware chains to keep on it. Well anyway he is now moving your's of the first inst about like nothing at all and do we see the world; we're sitting on top of it. Last night was to the Gotes club and my gawd...
...dances don't come often, ha, ha, and a girl has to have some education in her life. Which makes me think (don't laff at that) about Mister Guffblawin. He gets worse and worse. He said yesterday why don't you eat your lunch before coming to which joke ha, ha, I said we call it brekfast in the better circles which held him to no gain and I walked. And the braves are coming back soon, did you know it. Alma has a cousin which is on them, though I bet he don't know half the brave...