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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME did not say that Mr. Rogers is vulgar, insulting. Said TIME: "His under lip protrudes like the point of a vulgar joke."-Ed. "Governess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 2, 1926 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...Ambassador of the United States to Europe-without Portfolio"-a curious title for a joke-smith. The braided butler of the consular drawing-room chants it through his thorax, scorching the sibilants, booming the o's. The company stares at the newcomer. Famous women turn, over ivory shoulders, a glance cool with appraisal; gentlemen in dinner shirts striped with impossible decorations raise their monocles or feel for their small arms while he shambles into the room-"Viva, l'Ambassadeur." He wears an old grey suit. A jazbo necktie adorns, but fails to hide, the golden collar-stud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prairie Pantaloon | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...Lampy and his interiority in comparison with other college papers of the same type. But the fertile brain of the editors has at last, brought to light a new source of humor from which no doubt they will be able to draw a wealth of new and original jokes, and will thus relieve the present monotony of reading jokes which range anywhere from the pre-historic to "The Best Joke I Ever Heard" in the last Boston American. The idealism and breadth of vision displayed in the portrayal of the Semitic Museum deserves special mention. The artists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampy Rebuked | 6/17/1926 | See Source »

Cackle, cackle--Exit joke...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/9/1926 | See Source »

...matter what the scantiness of news may be, newspapers these days almost never publish a hoax. The joke may be widely enjoyable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Warden | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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