Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ladies drew near him, however, so Captain Frankau proceeded to relate a "joke" which connoisseurs present declared was both ancient, somewhat pointless and entirely offensive. In London, hearing this news and wondering how "that little writer chap" had ever been mistaken in the States for an official Conservative representative, Conservatives were irked...
...patriots sat down to compose letters to Secretary of State Kellogg, demanding that Boy-Ed be refused admission to the U. S., shameless journalists recalled an unwitting practical joke upon the U. S. Secret Service and upon Boy-Ed himself perpetrated by Grand Admiral von Tirpitz...
MUSICAL Song and joke books of special excellence are these: Sunny, The Vagabond King, By the Way, Pina fore, The Student Prince, Tip-Toes, Cocoanuts, Raquel Meller, lolanthe and No, No, Nanette...
...hated war. He did almost too well. They had not beaten him with the preparedness issue; the country was not prepared when the Republicans had turned it over to him; so they tried to make his decisions for him. He, declining the honor, is accused of snubbing! An unkind joke...
...long line of cars put back to Picayune. When they came to the bridge, the gentlemen adjusted the rope and paused for a moment to enjoy the joke. Then they told Jackson to jump. When the body, its last hideous paroxysm over, hung limp and awry on the rope's end, the cars moved on, their headlights following each other out of sight, into the darkness...