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Word: jokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That's a Joke, Son. In Huron, S.Dak., sober-faced Clarence Richardson turned up in court to contest his father's will, which left the estate to whoever could best explain why men, life and the Bible are all a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Anthony, now 56, makes a living writing a mystery thriller every other week for Hearst Sunday supplements, and contributing to newsstand joke magazines. Of his autobiography he says: "I suppose I made an ass of myself. But if you have to be an ass, you might as well be an honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Them Were the Days | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...unabashedly simian Self-Portrait by Tennessee's Representative James Percy Priest. It was, explained Priest, "a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sideshow | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Born. To Bennett A. (Try and Stop Me) Cerf, 47, joke collector, publisher (Random House-Modern Library), self-styled "superficial fellow with catholic tastes"; and Phyllis Eraser Cerf, 30, one time cinemactress: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Jonathan Fraser. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 15, 1946 | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...going ahead to 1950," have done little to improve methods used before the war, when the U.S., with only twice as many workers, turned out 15 times as many cars. Compared with more powerful, lower-priced U.S. models, said Member Shawcross, the smallest current British model is "a joke, a glorified, expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Under the Hood | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

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