Word: joker
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...Eifel Tower broadcasting station was opening with the first strains of a concert of classical music when a Yankee voice remarked: " Classical music is no good. Let me give you some real music." Then the ether was shattered with Casey Jones. The police are after the joker and have already determined " approximately" where he lives. The gendarmes describe him as having " a disjointed sense of humor...
...attack made in "Crowns and Clowns" upon the Bolshevist movement and socialists in general. Yesterday evening the officers of the club stated that they had taken no action in the matter other than to notify the authorities, believing that the letter may have been composed by some would be joker in the College...
...practical joker is a man to be endured only so long as he keeps within the bounds of decency. He may be cordially disliked all this time, but that is as far as his punishment can go. There is a line, however, which this joker may not cross and remain the same harmless though tiresome person. Once he has traversed this Rubicon, he subjects himself to punitive treatment...
...Dickens sent Mr. Fields a bit of the 'Uncommercial Traveller,' selected, it is likely enough, by that inveterate joker, because it revealed his method of literary composition when he was having the greatest difficulty in phrasing the narrative to suit him. From Whittier came the manuscript of several poems, together with a letter suggesting that one of them is of a class of poems of mine which are rather un-Quakerish.' Thackeray is represented by a bit of the 'Roundabout Papers,' Sydney Smith by his 'Letter to the Pennsylvanians' who had repudiated a state loan, and George Eliot by 'Agatha...
This is one thing, I think, that has puzzled many supporters of Western teams and has been troublesome, too, in the East. It is no "joker" unless it is permitted to be. Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and other elevens have permitted it to be a "joker", too often for their own comfort...