Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Invited to return in 1883 he became popular, especially for his humanized history. In 1914 he was exhausted by a brief but strenuous visit to the U. S. On seeing the Statue of Liberty he remarked: "Is that all the liberty you have?" This was taken as a joke, but nine years later he said: "Nowhere is social liberty less in evidence. ..." A 40-year friendship with Georges Clémenceau was broken during the War, when Critic Brandes was accused of lack of sympathy for the Allies. In 1921 he declared that Europe was finished and American domination...
...That sounds like saying, 'My relations with .the rats are friendly, and I have put poison in the kitchen to prove it.'" All this was a very good joke. It meant that 95% of the U. S. citizens who heard about the King's speech at all got a totally false impression-and, perhaps, a good laugh, a titter or a heehaw...
...word puzzles. His comments and foot-notes sound as if they had been written for a volume of Thornton Burgess' "Mother West Wind Stories"; among them he convinced one reader that, talk as he may about the technique of Lewis Carroll's nonsense, Mr. Reed never yet say the joke in it all and has somewhat strained his eyes trying to look...
...latest Who's Who, searchers may read that the Congressman from the 26th district of New York State is Hamilton Fish, born 1849, son of President Grant's famed Secretary of State. It is a mistake. It is also a joke, for the mistake has persisted in Who's Who for two editions...
...tale to this effect was telegraphed throughout the land. Next day, Representative Sinnott, of Oregon said the tale was correct except that Correspondent Brown had nothing to do with it. He, Sinnott, had managed the whole joke...