Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Month Club. The Senate has authorized an investigation of U. S. arms manufacturers. Old George Bernard Shaw might well have said: "I started it." His play, Major Barbara (1905) contained the first popular warning against munitions makers but, like many another Shavian admonition, was taken as a joke...
...midst for whom the consideration for one moment of a serious thought would be an ennui too great to be borne. For such, anything so hopelessly antediluvian as an ideal is excruciatingly funny. Well, gentlemen, it is not without the bounds of possibility for this tremendous joke to turn into a poetically just and ghastly ironic nightmare. If the country's future is to be guided by the harebrains which Friday's farce disclosed--God help the country. Sedgwick Mead...
...what was once a surfeit of young Swedish princes, only three remained in good standing last week: the Crown Prince's eldest, Gustaf Adolf, who is safely and royally married but childless; his unmarried youngest, Carl Johan; and unmarried first cousin Carl. Royalty's joke of the week was that the Bernadottes were playing "Going to Jerusalem" for the throne...
...that there are many ways to the recognition of truth, and that Burgundy is one of them. . . . I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with Him. To love Him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of His own heart." One of Dinesen's sophisticated elders quotes "that old saying which the peasants call the bachelor's prayer: 'I pray thee, good Lord, that I may not be married. But if I am to be married, that...
That extraordinary performance might have been seen in almost any Berkeley, Calif, public schoolroom last week. It was no joke to Berkeley citizens. After last year's Long Beach disaster a state survey commission found 19 of Berkeley's 21 schoolhouses wholly or partly unsafe...