Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worried about this money hoarding. When we were on this subject the President looked directly and severely at me and asked me: "Write a joke against these hoarders. Humor might show 'em how foolish they are. Now, go do that." So after all my kidding about Hoover Commissions, I am finally on one, "The Hoover Anti-hoarding Joke Commission...
Threading his way through assembled chorus girls, stage men ropes and trunks, he then went on in the famous telephone skid. Coming on stage he signed, "The trouble with a show's running a long time is that people social all the original stuff, so that new joke material has to be thought up all the time. If is the same way with the music, only we can't change that although the radios make everyone familiar with the tunes in the show long before people ever get to see it." Changing the subject suddenly he said. "You know there...
...joke about the unavailability of the books at Widener has grown decrepit with age. Familiar enough are the pencilled notations stating that the much desired book is mislaid, or else that all copies are in use, not to be returned for some weeks. The blame for this does not lie entirely with the Library staff, but to a large degree with the rule that most books may be kept out for a whole month...
...surprise you. Apparently he has a penchant for duels, has fought two, tried to fight two more (the latest only last year, with "a French man of letters who had said injurious things about Henry James"). He claims to be the inventor of the famed spinach joke, gives his original version: "An absent-minded man took a lady in to dinner. Soles were handed around and he took one with his fingers. Seeing the lady look surprised he said: 'Oh, I thought it was spinach...
...Democratic party is a joke and its emblem properly a jackass, then the motto selected is appropriate enough. . . . Imagine the great leaders of the great party devising as a fit expression of their principles and their purpose the truly asinine motto, 'Hee! Haw! We're coming back...