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Word: jokers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notable "joker" clause was inserted to the effect that the "value" of an object should never be considered as less than the sum for which it had been insured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Fiscal Babel | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...recent mysterious questionnaire which purported to submit to a plebiscite of graduates and undergraduates two statements--one by the CRIMSON and one by W. O. McGeehan, sports writer--has succeeded well in doing well what the anonymous joker who sent it evidently sought to do. It has thrown a cloud of misinterpretation and misunderstanding around a perfectly sane and frank statement by the CRIMSON of the proper relations that should exist between athletics and the College. One graduate Mr. J. M. Hallowell '88, who has been so misled, writes indignantly as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO CORRECT MISUNDERSTANDING | 11/6/1925 | See Source »

Churchmen are solemnly considering the removal of the "little joker" from the Episcopal marriage service. Wives need no longer promise to obey their husbands, if the proposed revision of the marriage ceremony recommended by Bishop Coadjutor Slattery of Massachusetts be adopted by the Episcopal Triennial General Convention which is to meet at New Orleans today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO FOLLY NEAR ALLIED | 10/7/1925 | See Source »

...King Street, London, is the headquarters of Communists in Britain. When some "reds" arrived there one morning last week, they found it streaked with red, white and blue paint. Not being in love with the colors of the Union Jack, the Communists threatened, if they caught the "joker," to "paint him red all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: More Notes | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...reporters, well-pleased, withdrew. As the door clicked behind them, the young man leaped from his couch, began hurriedly to dress. Then he skulked to the deck and vanished down the gangplank. He, nameless practical joker, was an impostor. The real George Gershwin was in the smoking-room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gershwin | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

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