Word: joke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gerald du Maurier, celebrated actor, thought the cartoon on the Prince was a great and harmless joke. He bought it for $40 and says he did not want it to get into the wrong hands and that he will not sell it to anyone in the world except the Prince of Wales. ". . . one day," he added, "it will be found hanging in the nursery of King Edward VIII at Windsor Castle...
True, some of the jokes are rather mummified, but, judging by the laughter of the audience, there must be some people who haven't heard a joke in ten years. And all the other ingredients that go to make up a successful musical comedy are there in profusion. The music is catchy and pleasant?indeed some of the songs will probably afflict the flat-dweller's ear from the phonograph next door for months to come. Vivienne Segal has one of the best voices in light opera and uses it with effectiveness and precision. Richard Carle and Billy...
...states that the captives are having a "wonderful time"; the British think it is a " topping excursion "; the Yanks are doing " durned fine "; the Italians " facendo una festa"; the Japs and the Chinks, with their oriental stoicism, say nothing. Then a charge of tragedy is shot into the practical joke when it is announced that the captives are dying of hunger or exposure. On the whole, it seems that the captive foreigners are not likely to be badly treated now that the bandits have come to an agreement with the Government...
...world is available for solving such problems as may be suggested, the possibilities seem limitless. When a maxim silencer has been invented for airplanes, and non-clogging pipe-stems have become actualities, inventors and scientists can turn their attention to the making of articles once suggested in joke. Stephen Leacock's "Man in Asbestos" may yet come into being, dressed in a suit of everlasting knickerbockers, and cating concentrated food pills for nourishment. "Hole-proof Hosiery", now named with optimistic exaggeration, will some day be made so as to defy even the attacks of army boots. Safety razors will...
...like a fancy dress ball. On the minute stage of the Provincetown Theatre are assembled people dressed up as Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo dei Medici, Fra Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli and all manner of other notables of renaissance Florence. It is all very ingenious and very amusing. But the joke is run into the ground. All these grotesque masqueraders begin to take themselves seriously. You think you were wrong about the fancy dress. Casting sidelong glances about the garden of Lorenzo, you nervously seek the uniformed attendant. At any moment, you feel, some ardent damsel may rush on shouting...