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Word: jokebooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...have considered the harm they are causing? The benefits of teaching real English are obvious enough, but a mere statement of the disadvantages will dissuade those who would callously knife a tradition of American humor. Deprived of their livelihood, a score of humorists will commit hari-kari, with a jokebook in their hands and a smile on their lips. The American nation, grossly abused in its privilege of laughing at the "furriner's" English, will hasten the Pacific world into war. With Irwin as general, a brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from end to end. And in America universal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EASTERN MENACE | 1/16/1925 | See Source »

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