Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Worst of all, from the Danish standpoint, George II took in debate, st week, the affirmative side-exalting brawn over Brain. To joyous Oxford students it was a jolly, royal joke; but presumably King Christian X of Denmark was vexed to read that his George II had said in debate...
This new book, then, is only a restatement of the old grim joke of those who start after the Holy Grail or the secret of the stars and end up in a maze of very stark, human, and rather pitiful desire. The men and women who take this pilgrimage are of all kinds, all equally well drawn. Mr. Burlap, the editor of a weekly paper who "believe in Life" and makes his paper do so too, is perhaps the most faithfully depicted...
Many a flat joke was made about the next Congress not being "Ruthless" and about this being the campaign of the four Ruths, since Baseballer George Herman ("Babe") Ruth was stumping for the Brown Derby (see p. 9). The three ladies were...
...disappointed, and to bear out the principle she sang a concert once in Brooklyn on one foot, the other so badly sprained she had to be carried on the stage and propped against the piano. Yet trembling with fatigue when it was over she could still make a joke. Bent and looking infinitely pathetic: "Won't someone do something for a poor old prima donna...
...great lords' joke was a cartoon by "Low"' (famed David Low), which appeared in The Evening Standard, a paper owned jointly by Beaverbrook and Rothermere but controlled by the former. Cartoonist "Low" took as his theme a new version of the old song "Who Killed Cock Robin?" illustrating each verse as follows...