Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great lords of British journalism. Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, cracked a joke, last week, at all politicians concerned howsoever remotely with the now defunct Anglo-French secret naval Pact (TIME...
Your failure to call your readers' attention to the gross misrepresentations of figures adopted as a campaign expedient by one of the presidential candidates indicates that the editors of the present board are not alive. And if the editors must have their joke, why not poke a little fun at what Al Smith calls Mr. Hoover's "statistical essays"? At least, the editors will be calling attention to the fact that Harvard College is surrounded by a nation. L. O. Pratt...
...well arise and answer the doorbell every time it rings on Halloween. Boys will be boys, and it is well known that many of the editorial board of the news magazine have but recently given up positions on college funny papers. Still glib and sophomoric, they love a good joke even more than most people. In fact they have attracted a circulation of some two hundred thousand through an earnest development of the anything-for-a-joke policy. Successful, they are now read not so much for what they say but for the "nasty way they...
...members of an undergraduate political club must immediately lead to unsubstantial charges of forgery, padding its lists, and general corruption. The Hoover-for-President Club admits that the signature in question was not genuine; but its presence is known to be the result of a curious type of practical joke from an independent source, combined with carelessness on the part of one of our workers, whose membership sheet was not turned in until after the charges had appeared in the CRIMSON. Since then we have checked over our list of members with a view both to authenticity of the individual...
...intend that my letter should be taken, as a joke, for though none would be quicker to appreciate a bon mot than myself. I cannot in all truth my that I see anything funny about forgery. In this stand I am substantiated by several banks and penal institutions...