Word: jokers
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...upon Portuguese loafers strolling about with a sow on a string, upon swart policemen impressively asleep- finally upon the Earl of Birkenhead who walked in a bathrobe, worn toga-fashion, beside a pool into which no one cast ?100. That evening the so dapper gentlemen were merry. What a joker His Lordship was, to be sure! Mr. Shaw was not half so clever. Haw! Pretended he would jump into the pool, haw! Who but His Lordship would even have thought of it? Perishable! Positively rare and perishable! Haw! . . . "You will tip my waiter ?100," said a cold dry voice...
Recent steps taken by both students and faculties to give the students a more important voice in affairs of the college have been of a very encouraging nature, but such a joker and such a sop to the students' ego as this Student Court can hardly be recognized as a forward step. Instead of building up an undergraduate Secret Service. Penn State would do well to develop a spirit of honest cooperation between faculty and student body in constructive policies...
...League of Nations. All present expressed their good will toward the U. S. and passed the first four* reservations without notable demur. On the fifth reservation, however, the conferees became deadlocked, as had been anticipated from the day this reservation was drafted. The fifth reservation is notoriously the "joker" inserted by the Senate to give the U. S. absolute power to prohibit the World Court from handing down "an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the U. S. has or claims an interest."† The resentment of the World Court Adherent Powers at this blanket reservation...
Complete humanitarians were vexed to learn that a joker clause will prevent the application of this statute to silk mills and machinery factories...
...unpleasantly accurate, it is time to go home much sooner. The Joker is a wordy and obvious melodrama. Mr. Morgan is far too good an actor to play this sort of thing, in which he is one jump ahead of the villain, poverty and cuckoldom...