Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent date. I had read the article in TIME with a good deal of amusement. I could not add surprise, as I have been in politics too long to be surprised when misquoted or misrepresented. I suppose I have too much sense of humor to be puritanical concerning a joke. The story in TIME was inexact. For instance I did not make a speech and I never made a speech in Montreal, and of course, I did not in Montreal or elsewhere say 'To hell with Mr. Volstead...
...Chuckled at a Guildhall speech last week by the Very Rev. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge of St. Paul's who described the new House of Commons as "full of really delightful young gentlemen who stood for Parliament only as a joke" but were swept in by the Tory election landslide (TIME...
...Edward A. Cudahy, Jr., Mr, 6 Mrs, William McCormick Blair, Mrs, Louise de Koven Bowen Phelps, Ralph Mines, About 11 p. m. five gunmen burst in but the guests, playing backgammon, were not perturbed. Austin H. Niblack had just gone home and this, they thought, was some practical joke of his. They changed their minds when the bandits began to collect jewelry. While the robbers were at work Chauffeur William Matheson slipped to a telephone, in a whisper called police. Two officers arrived, were lined up with the victims by the gunmen who then lost their nerve, fled. The police...
...Sample joke: "Don't you agree that the movies should be kept clean?" "Absolutely! Something should be done about these people who throw candy boxes and peanut shells on the floor...
...Washington, Secretary Hurley, pleased as Punch with Rooseveltian support, declared: "This thing is getting to be a good joke but really, you know, I'm not a candidate. Besides I was for Charlie Curtis in 1924. I was for him in 1928. I'm still...