Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremony because her treasury is running short of money and his mother has plenty of it. The main trouble with The Warrior's Husband is that its theme lacks capacity for development. Once the original idea sinks in there is nothing very comical-unless you think a joke improves with repetition -about the war with the Greeks which presently sets in. Naturally Antiope falls in love with a Greek hoplite (David Manners). When Hercules-portrayed as a puffing, timid lout by Stanley Sandford- stumbles into camp he is roguishly made a prisoner by Hippolyta's ringlet-bearded little...
President Roosevelt shook hands all around, congratulated the crew on the salute of 21 foghorn blasts the Thebaud had paid the Sequoia down the river. The fishermen gave the President a 50-lb. halibut. "Just about enough to feed my family," chuckled Mr. Roosevelt, before cracking the old joke about the young bride who ordered six halibut for dinner. The Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy remembered well how one of the fleet's schooners had been sunk by German submarines...
...glimpse of himself as he really was, he found- nothing. The more he brooded over his undiscoverable identity the more despairing he became. Finally, in ah attempt to shock people's idea of him into something resembling his own, he played what seemed like such a strange practical joke that his wife left him, his friends tried to have him committed to an asylum. At the cost of surrendering all his possessions to the Church he kept his liberty, became an inmate in the paupers' home his money had founded...
Manager Bill Terry of the New York Giants had just come back to his hotel after winning an exhibition game from the Chicago Cubs in Los Angeles. "I never experienced anything like that in my life," he said. "At first I was inclined to take it for a joke and I remember making some crack about guessing the shock of the Giants' winning a ball game being too much." Manager Terry fled to the middle of a square outside the hotel, surrounded, like a hen with chicks, by the whole Giant team. At length Trainer Willie Schafer was prevailed...
...passing of the last "lame duck" session in U. S. history was a sombre, subdued affair. The nation was too wracked with troubles for silly songs and partisan chatter. The nearest thing to a joke was cracked by Republican Senate. Leader Watson, defeated for reelection, when he announced that he was "going home with the almost unanimous consent of the people of Indiana...