Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Folks. Peter Pan's happy light flitted about Columbia's Teachers' College. Professor Goodwin Barbour Watson there trapped it under the lattice bushel of his studies. "In general." said he, "the happy student is likely to be a healthy, popular, married man who thinks that he can tell a joke well, lead a discussion, act in a play, talk on sex, or lead a group. . . . He has had a harmonious home, enjoys his job, prefers adventure to peace, responsibility to direction. Not essential to happiness are intelligence, race, nationality, self-support, religious participation, ability in algebra, cleverness in writing poetry...
...William M. Bennett, running as a dry candidate for mayor in the Republican primary this month, pledged to exterminate every speakeasy, is commonly regarded as a "joke'' candidate...
...inventor, joke-loving, played with his machine. He flew her toward a fence and, just as he might have crashed, pulled her into a stall. She hovered comfortably a few feet from the ground. He got her high and flew her to about 90 m.p.h. At will he held her almost stationary in the air. His landing made spectators laugh. It was like a domestic goose hopping from a fence with wings spread, feet and tail reaching for the ground. He deflected the autogiro's tail planes downward. They brushed against the ground just before the wheels. Then...
...offensive. . . . I did not know that in the French language they had any discourteous significance." Of course grotesque is exactly as offensive as "grotesque"?the English and French spellings and meanings being absolutely identical. "Ridiculous" and ridicule are the same. But as a diplomatic gesture the joke would hold water, was perforce "accepted as an apology" by incensed M. Cheron...
Last week O Estado de Sao Paulo credited TIME with truth telling, flayed spot news stories, cabled from Manhattan and Galveston as "grossly exaggerated, largely false and forged in the correspondents' warm imaginations in an effort to flatter Brazilian readers or 'put over' a joke...