Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point I am trying to bring is that those students at N. C. University or any other place are not totally to blame. It's the system imposed on them that is to blame. An honor system is only a joke unless it works both for the professors as well as the students. Shame on N. C. U. for branding its sons as thieves while there are thousands more in schools over the country. It should brand the system that led to such a crisis as well as jail the Honor Student who sold himself for money...
...whom Beury, W. Va., is named, Charles Ezra Beury graduated from Princeton in 1903. When he received a law degree from Harvard three years later it was in absentia because that day he was marrying the Lutheran pastor's daughter in his native Shamokin, Pa. His stock joke: "I became a bachelor and a benedict on the same...
...just a joke between me and Sullivan, but he made a mountain out of a mole hill and let it get into the papers. Now I've got to get him a horse somewhere. I have a couple of plugs up at the poor farm that sin't doing much, so I guess I'll let him have one of them. The trouble is, though, that I think more of the horse than I do of Sullivan, and I don't want to send it out in the cold to catch pneumonia...
...Senator: "Mrs. Borah is perpetrating a joke. There's nothing...
...South Seas there is no commuting to the office, no zero weather, not one house-to-house salesman. But there are hurricanes. And even in Miami they will tell you that a hurricane is no joke. If you live on an atoll, its highest point a few feet above the water, a hurricane may well be the end of your world. Authors Nordhoff & Hall, who for the last 16 years have lived in the South Seas as exiles from civilization, write about a hurricane as two having authority. As popularizers of the epic tale of H. M. S. Bounty they...