Word: joke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fame. As a lightfingered taxi man he harbors much too warm a heart, and the humor for a really humorous part. As Pere Chevillan, a jovial kill or cure purveyor of religion who has laughed with, as well as at the world for so long that the donkey joke won't focus, Mr. W. H. Post also gives a splendid performance...
John D. Rockefeller, as all the world knows, plays golf. Uncomplimentary photographs of him in his golfing clothes adorn every other issue of most Sunday rotogravure sections, and these photographs have started a very silly idea. They have made people think that his golf is a joke. Whenever an old man is holding up a crowded course, putting from one side of the hole to the other, or standing bent in an interminable stance, one golfer will say to another, "Heavens, don't drive, Marjorie! That must be John D. Rockefeller." Last week Mr. Rockefeller gave answer...
When informed of this fact, S. D. Richards '27, Business Manager of the now defunct paper, expressed no surprise. "We have all expected this for a long time", he said. "But after all the joke is not on us. We have had free use of the building for 17 years. What more could...
...intention of publishing the widely advertised St. Patrick's number. The sudden meeting of the board yesterday morning at 7 o'clock was called for the sole purpose of informing the editors of the situation. Barred from the press, the assembled mob decided on one last practical joke and a parade, neither of which called forth any laughter...
...before stock payments, the U. S. district attorney at Manhattan doused that hardy enthusiasm, filed suit in Federal Court there to restrain promotion of the food products concern as a potential violator of the Clayton anti-trust act. The food corporation lawyers laughed, called the suit "a joke." In "about ten minutes" an answer could be prepared, would be filed the next day. None was. Last week lawyers came into court and abjectly consented to the modification of the corporation's intents...