Word: joke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Made of a tin box, an iron pipe, a pinch of gun powder, a box of matches, sandpaper and some wax, the "bomb" turned out to be a "practical joke...
...door of our church for 40 years. A zealous Mason tried to capture him for the order. The Mason told me he'd failed, and this was the reason: "Why, laws, I'm a Catholic! I belong to Father W." I gave the Mason a drink; the joke was good-and it was on the Mason and me. FATHER WILL WHALEN Old Jesuit Mission. Orrtanna...
...prime joke this would have been, had not other students of Prohibition, perhaps less profound than Senator Borah but with better memories, recalled that on May 16, 1921, the Supreme Court had decided this exact point−and decided it solidly against Senator Borah's present interpretation. In the case of Dillon v. Gloss, Mr. Justice Van Devanter delivered the unanimous opinion of the court...
Last week, noticing that the Literary Digest had reprinted an "etaoin shrdlu" line, apparently as a joke but without bothering to explain the mystery to its readers, the ever-practical New York World explained editorially for laymen what every newsman knows...
...planting of a wood to be called Einstein Forest. Newsgatherers cornered Frau Einstein in the elevator of her home but could obtain little "color" for their stories. "Why? If you would only tell us why!" pleaded Frau Einstein. Lacking other Einstein comment, Berlin newspapers republished his one "joke" about relativity, viz.: "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours...