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Word: jokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mayor Smith & henchmen held a rally. Stated Mayor Smith: "I am Wet and do not believe any sane or sensible person believes the Prohibition Law can be enforced in great cities like Detroit, Chicago and New York. . . . The whole thing is the rankest sort of a joke. . . . The rottenest hypocrisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: In Detroit | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Said Eric H. Palmer Jr.: "This is a huge joke. Father can't have my license revoked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 2 ATZ | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...other hand, is a man of 45 with a young, sad face, the face of an esthete. His attention has generally been focused on the theatre which he now reviews and ridicules in the pages of three separate publications. He has also published The American Credo, a sort of joke book full of the nonsensical notions which U. S. citizens supposedly accept as fact. Some of these notions are merrily apposite; most are mere fictions invented by Author Nathan who sometimes (as above) seems capable of falling into his own babbit-snares. Most of his other numerous opera have dealt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...judgment of these--shall we say scientists--has not always been very exact. Indeed according to many accounts the Harvard man is chiefly famous for three things--his unfortunate choice in his tailor, the "you can always tell a Harvard man but you can't tell him much" joke and his indifference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Marriage Annulled. Helen Wainwright Holland, famed swimmer, married with a 10? wedding ring in April (because her theatre manager desired publicity), from one George Leonard Holland, trap drummer. She charged fraud. "My marriage was only a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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