Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scrub Joke. When it is 6:55 a.m. at Gettysburg Academy in Pennsylvania, two short, swart Mexican youths tumble out of their beds and then proceed to make them. They agree with President Hoover that their father is the one and only President-Elect of Mexico. They are studious Guillermo Rubio, 18, and athletic Fernando...
...bought an old what-you-call flivver last fall," reminisces Guillermo. ''For weeks we rode around making much fun. But one day the flivver broke down six miles from Gettysburg and we left it there for a good joke...
...Joke...
...foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or?as in Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown out anything suggestive of home or homesickness with their corps anthem, "From the Halls of Montezuma," a song of many unprintable versions...
...Angeles one Gregory Woodford sat with his friend J. A. Pursley in a seventh story hotel window, telling a joke. At the climax Woodford gave Pursley a thrust in the ribs. Both rollicked with laughter, fell out of the window, were killed...