Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...partisans of the Bourbon, Orléans and Bonaparte causes were to unite (which seems impossible), a situation might arise under the guise of Fascism that would be a distinct political menace to the Republic. On the face of it, it looks more like a practical joke than anything else...
...drinking rather than drunkenness became the social offense. The result was a rapid swing back from the attitude that a man might drink, but owed respect for his follows in the matter of conduct to the boyish point of view that intoxication was a joke, not on one's self, but on the law. The sense of personal responsibility was miraculously shifted from the individual to the law, and the result has been occasional debauches in the universities...
...chiefly the common sense of humor which guffaws at any joke smacking of anything alcoholic, which seizes on any case of drunkenness it may, and spreads the story as fast as it may, that is responsible. Perhaps this tendency reacts to make some few men proud beyond the average of their drunkenness, and so further encourages publicity. Certain it is that daily papers, as a rule, exaggerate the importance of the evil, in their attempt to cater to public taste.--The very fact that illicit liquor is so increasedly expensive prevents much drunkenness--but, it seems, Harvard, Yale and Princeton...
Whitman writes that coaches regard the ban on coaching from the side-lines as a joke and that they convey orders by various devices. He cites the manner in which Pfaffmann was sent into the Harvard-Holy Cross game as substitute quarterback and then called for a semi-trick play, as having something to do with this general discussion of football ethics and coaching from the side-lines. This week the newspapers have been press-agenting the Dartmouth game as a battle between coaches, partly resulting from the quarterback dilemma at Harvard...
...Lieutenant Governor of Papua, says, they are a "race of kindly killers". Now what is murder, however exquisitely it may be performed, without the accompanying heat of strong passions? Instead of shuddering deliciously the average man, if he were a spectator, would probably laugh and crack a stale joke until he was split by a spear...