Word: joke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people have the coarseness and the utter want of finer sensibilities, to joke about it. The average sentiment around College this afternoon seemed to be, Well, it's about time he did something or other; or, the damn fool! did he expect to go on living on nothing...
...Scotch are proverbially slow in realizing a joke and many other matters. But they have now waked up to the insidious inroads of the "Pussyfoot" campaign for prohibition in their bonnie land. Long advertisements with two grinning black cats at top and bottom are confronting the readers of Scottish newspapers demanding "a firm stand for self-determination" and in asking, in bold, black type. "Why not prohibit Pusayfoot?" Scotch blood is running hot over the sheer intemperance of the prohibi...
...play jogs along, one catches oneself thinking of Chaucer and wondering why. Perhaps it is the breathless jostle of bright costume and eager garrulity, the sheer impetuousness of movement as such, the merrily malicious person of our playwright-imp teasing here, pricking there, now poking a goodly joke if the ribs of conscience, now playing hide-and-seek with a smug morality, always exposing to laughter the foibles, the vanities, the littlenessesses of our too human nature...
...have said that he was tired of the human race, and hoped in Egypt to find more congenial friends among the mummies. Certainly, if Premier Nitti advice were followed, many of our present difficulties would soon disappear. Life would be much easier if we could all recognize a joke when we saw it, even it were officially classed as an "international problem" or a "grave symptom of social upheaval." The worries of the General Public have reduced him to the pitiably bedraggled state in which he usually appears in our newspaper cartoons. To him we recommend Premier Nitti's remedy...