Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opera audience there was well pleased with "Rosalinde". Its chorused applause swelled to a persistent curtain call. "We want Handel! We want Handel!" The New York Times continues. "At first those versed in musical history took the yell as a joke but a glance at the enthusiastic faces of the claquers was convincing evidence that the composer was actually regarded as a contemporary musician...
Manifestly he does not find his celebrity too inconvenient to have his little joke and bring his name once more before a curious and gossipy public. This is only another indication of his uniqueness. A short time ago his photograph flashed in all the newspapers showing him posed upon a diving board and looking for all the world like a bathing beauty in whiskers. Now he joins the exclusive circle of Wall Street as possessor of his own code signature...
Professor Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government, will preside over the Debating Union discussion, "Resolved, that this house regards prohibition as a practical joke," to be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the Faculty Room of the Union...
...Just suppose that the chairman of a woman's club were to announce that any lady could talk as long as she pleased on a cure for rheumatism or the boundaries of Azerbaijan. The women would think it an ill-timed joke, for a minute. Then, if that really happened, they'd agree that the chairman was mentally unbalanced...
Some dominies were humorous. Buddha, they readily grasped, was something to joke about-a funny cross-legged little figure like a Billiken. Others were taciturn, others sorrowful, others inspired to righteous wrath; but on one point all were agreed - it would be a horrible thing to permit the effigy of so noted an infidel to appear in the midst of a Christian city. It would be like reminding men of the lost rites of Astarte, like resurrecting the god, Priapus, or setting up the image of the Golden Bull of Tyre...