Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dorothy Cambell Hurd of Philadelphia, national champion; Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, Miss Francis Hadfield of Milwaukee, Miss Dorothy Klotz of Chicago, Mrs G. H. Stetson of Philadelphia. Suddenly, one of their number pointed to a name, emitted a snicker. Others, following his shaking finger, perceived the joke, began to titter, to cackle. Soon a hysteria of amusement possessed the group; they laid hands upon one another, crowing; they pressed their sides, their eyes watered freely, they stamped upon the ground; some, more abandoned, slipped limply down and rolled, helpless, among the feet of those left standing. Oshkosh! They...
...quarrelsome Shaw, half-mad and experimenting Joyce; but here is a soul that springs from the folkways of the world, to whom all the humdrum affairs of life take on the gold cloaks and the swords of legendry, who sees elves dancing the Woolworth Tower and a mystical little joke making faces from a subway turnstile. A great poet and a great personality. May he stay long and return often...
Several times recently you have published curious letters over my signature which have given me more publicity than amusement. The first, in its obvious connection with the Business School number of the Lampoon, seemed to be apropros and somewhat funny. I can take a joke. But this last, lacking both humor and originality, being neither relevant nor in good taste, is so banal as to be scarcely credible. Really the CRIMSON sleuths should expose these scurrilous scribes. I feel sure that they are the same individuals who steal the books from Widener...
Last week, Manhattanites found the first issue of The New Yorker on their club tables, their hotel stands, their back-alley kiosks; they ruffled its pages, found it to contain one extremely funny original joke, tagged, unfortunately, with a poor illustration; several pages of skits upon such subjects as after-dinner speaking, radio, the "life of a popular song," the New York Graphic. Columbus's arrival in Manhattan, a column called "Talk of the Town" signed Van Bibber III; an article on Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, by one Golly-Wogg; "The Theatre," by Last Night...
...play was Hell's Bells, performed in a Manhattan Theatre. O'Donnell was Eddie Garvie. The wounded man was Clifton Self. The woman who fainted was Shirley Booth. The laughing onlookers were the audience. They thought it was a joke until the curtain went down and they had to endure a long wait while Garvie was arrested and Self was treated to bandages and salve. Then up went the curtain and the play was finished. Afterward, Garvie was taken to jail, but released subsequently on $500 bail...