Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When he had come off stage I asked him what he had seen all through the act that was so funny. He thought I was poking an impudent joke at him, and he grew indignant. I saw that I had made a mistake somewhere, and shut up. Later I discovered that the humorous expression was natural to De Luca...
Shortly preceding and long following July 1, 1918 came the Prohibition joke--a noxious thing which everyone hoped would shortly die a natural death. But it was imbued with remarkable staying powers and nearly six years after its birth, this old joke, this same old discussion, is still going strong. People try to shut their ears against its monotonous reiteration but such action will do no good. The reason for its staying powers is that like Banquo's ghost the question will not down. The Prohibition question, if not liver than ever, is certainly as live as when the Eighteenth...
...headlong into the swift current. Being an excellent swimmer, I reached the shore, where my wife helped me from the water. Drenched, hatless, I walked more than a mile to a farm hourse. Next day I was none the worse for my chilling experience. The newspaper made a great joke over the fact that I had been...
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...dialogue in the first of these shows is sufficiently offensive. In the second it goes far beyond the limits. A scene in the second of these shows is a burlesque on the play, Rain. It makes a joke of the activities of a woman outcast...