Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ribald sandwich men prowled after dainty women, hooked their leering quills into the backs of afternoon frocks, tailored coats. Red feathers depended from Deputies coattails; .gamins snickered and the deputies, the fine ladies, not seeing the joke, snickered also...
...Moscow's lower depths in steaming content. Wide faces waxed into full-mooned laughter. Behind the relentless mask of the Third International, beaked sardonic visages relaxed in a sour smile, as the Pravda, famed Bolshevist sheetlet, brought them welcome tidings of nauseous conditions beyond the seas. A joke, a Gargantuan jest, had just been found to be on someone else...
...Chicago university are safe in the hands of a man who has had high marks, not only in the pedagogical engineering of Wisconsin but also in handling men and moneys as a member of the National Re-search Council. Wondering about his personality, Chicago learned: that he likes a joke and tells a good one; that he is amiable as well as earnest, democratic as well as exacting; that he is something of a sportsman, a speedy winner of affections, an unselfish devotee of the causes he embraces. Chicago, anxious for a glimpse of the man who is to carry...
...paragraph in your issue in which you gave accredited place to some reporter's description of the band concert which we gave in the street following the Ground Breaking for the Broadway Temple. The two programs were in no way related. After treating the whole program as a joke, you completed the article by saying...
...deeper the drill went, the higher rose excitement among New Jersey farmers, realtors from as far west as Ohio, invalids and trippers from nearby Lakewood, piney health resort. Gogetters prepared for a boom, securing options, mapping a town. Sceptics believed it merely the renaissance of a New Jersey joke of five years' standing: "Oil in Ocean County...