Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James F. Byrnes was still the U.S. Senator. He spoke clearly, sharply, now & then emotionally, and usually as if to a gallery. He made a little joke occasionally, flashing his Irish smile and looking around, as pleased as an Irish thrush, when the audience politely laughed...
...Tremendous [cigaret] campaigns are concocted out of nothingness. . . . Nostrums, patent medicines . . . stomach and head soothers . . . speak their own brand of falsehoods . . . through joke and jingle...
...nervous tic, this professor always broke into a broad grin whenever he had something serious to say. So infectious was his ailment that his audience, after listening to his grim dissertation on Germany's total collapse, walked out convinced that the apparent tragedy was just a huge joke...
...Single Joke. Harry Truman's week went unrelieved by fun. He got in four afternoon sessions of exercising and splashing in the pool. He got away from the White House only once-to the Mayflower Hotel suite of Artist Douglas Grahville Chandor, where he admired the almost completed portrait of Citizen Churchill...
...most difficult periods Harry Truman had been through in his 49 weeks as President. While he did not show grave concern, there was no mistaking the White House atmosphere. One of his helpers summed up the official attitude. Said he, plainly worried: "There hasn't been a joke cracked around here all week...