Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is what the nineties found the height of the entertaining, it is not difficult to understand why the parents of today find it so hard to enjoy the ideas of the "present generation". But another thirty years and perhaps even the "Didn't-I-see-you-in-Buffalo" joke may have seen its best days...
Reeled from their classic joke...
...last year, reports that he encountered the hold-up man in the entry as he was entering his room at about 8 o'clock last night. The man pointed a gun at the Law Student, and asked for all that he had. At first Selden thought the matter a joke but when he saw the gun he decided otherwise. The robber then grabbed Selden's gold watch and chain, fired at him, and disappeared around the corner of the building...
...Modern Golfer, the verve thus suggested seems badly buried in the bunkers of authorship. The garrulousness is there, but the wit runs so low that one joke, about a billiard player watching Vardon putt, has to be pressed into service twice...
Quinn Martin?"In need of a good joke...