Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Obsolete Joke...
...issue of TIME on p. 15 you state that "The citizens of Charlotte, N. C. shrieked with ignorant delight when he [Gov. Murray] cracked an obsolete joke which the audience thought was an original Alfalfaism...
Will you be kind enough to explain how you knew that the citizens shrieked in ignorance and how you knew that they thought the joke original...
...particular point in this article which riled me was the untrue statement made in regard to the joke which Mr. Murray told in his speech at Charlotte, N. C. stating that President Hoover is a great engineer. "He has dammed, ditched and drained the country in three years." ... I heard Mr. Murray's speech on that particular night and I enjoyed it and the joke very much. But the statement as to the joke being obsolete does not apply, as the dictionary defines obsolete as out of use. So evidently the joke is not obsolete or else Mr. Murray...
...Russian Revolution, when the jealous greenhouse-keeper became executioner of the Tribunal of that town, whenever prisoners, especially officers, were condemned, he would read the sentence, load his gun, fire it straight between their eyes. But the cartridge was always a blank. After he had "laughed heartily over his joke, the prisoners would be disposed of in the regular...