Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repeat this performance for many days, and hope to live to the age of 125"-the age he thought he might reach before he saw "the consummation of my ideas." Observed the ascetic, sleepless, not unhumorous Mahatma: "To inculcate perfect discipline and non-violence among 400 million is no joke...
...victim of a joke, my friend; just walk down your own Main Street in your own town and count the drunks and smell the liquor; does it shock you? Nauseate you? If those at home can do it, why not the boys who bled and fought for you? Instead of running down the American youth as you seem to delight in doing, you should thank your God that it is Americans running wild in Europe and not Nazis and Japs running wild...
...talked to Shelley Mydans for three hours the other day . . . and whether she's telling a joke, talking seriously, or relating adventures that would scare Superman, she's cool as a Tom Collins. . . . Shelley Mydans is one of the relatively few people on our side who knows much about our Pacific enemy...
...revival of the old play, Lady Windermere's Fan, by Oscar Wilde. It had one lovely old joke. 'There's nothing in the world like the devotion of married women, but of course that's something a married man knows nothing about...
Last week, nasal sprays were no joke for Silent Tom Smith, the man who developed Seabiscuit and this year trained Cosmetic Queen Elizabeth Arden Graham's top money-winning stable ($512,454 in purses). New York's vigilant Jockey Club, having found some dopey spray in one of his horses, banned Trainer Smith from U.S. tracks for a year...