Word: joke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this radical departure, the CRIMSON was said to be "hazarding" an enterprise which was termed as "extraordinary" with an exclamation point. One editorial in its opening paragraph enlightened its readers that the CRIMSON had not perpetrated a joke, but rather was "intensely in earnest...
Foreign Minister Stresemann, often called "the German Lloyd George," reveled last week in a practical joke (played by newspapers) which would have delighted the Welshman...
...Charmington and the lights in the passing ten o'clock express made a serpentine suggestion of reality in the passing below the cemetery. And then, refreshed, they went home to dream of pastures pekinese and anti-poodle, pastures fairer than Charmington and much more honest. And they remembered the joke which has long made Charmington famous, a remark of Cartrack herself--"You can't teach a pekinese new profanity...
...cheap, silly stuff like this (a clipping referring to the recent egg-eating record established in Harvard Square is enclosed Ed Note), that is making Harvard more and more a joke. The student involved being a Senior increases the offense. No true Harvard man (and I include members of the various teams, crews, etc., etc.) will go out of his way an inch to gain even excusable publicity that is individual personal publicity...
...bits of Russian and a dash of good old Broadway. Albert Carroll and the resident Neighborhood troupe are employed in the performance and give singularly good account. The entertainment provides probably the only musical evening in the city's theatres devoid of a note of jazz or an old joke...