Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joke to its competitors is the Bulletin's speed in getting to press with a big story, getting it to thousands of outlets. But its unhurried mien in other ways gives Philadelphians some chuckles. A few years ago its editors decided on new type, headlines, makeup. Changes were made page by page, week by week. Her public was hardly aware that the Old Lady of City Hall Square was changing her dress...
...Change of Subject. Subjects change, says Kahn, as soldiers progress from recruit camp to the front line, where U.S. soldiers show a cold-bloodedness which "would probably alarm their families" as it does their enemies. The rookies joke about such ancient miseries as KP, blisters, close-order drill. But humor in combat is fleeting and spontaneous, often would be meaningless any other time...
...Hassett. Lank, grey, stooped Bill Hassett, 64, got a little flustered, for the President abruptly announced that this was a court-martial; that he, Bill, had been accused of using some very bad language and the group was gathered to see how good a swearer he really was. Forthwith joke-loving Franklin Roosevelt handed Bill Hassett a commission as full presidential secretary, to succeed the late Marvin Mclntyre...
...Argentine people, who have long considered their Government a joke, were beginning to think it a bad one. Some of them even did something about it. La Prensa, great and respected daily of Buenos Aires, attacked the savage press-gag laws, the Government which made them (see p. 46). Said Alfredo Palacios, Socialist elder statesman, in La Prensa: "The army is trained to defend the nation, not to govern it." Leaderless construction workers went on strike because "we don't like this Government...
...have to win them, pester them, and change your attack with every visit. You have to kid and joke. You have got to put serious truths in their own language. You have got to be at their beck and call 24 hours a day and at last one day they may ask you to hear their Confessions. There's no easy job in this chaplain's work. One of my classmates . . . once said that the job of saving souls is like trying to catch snowflakes in a tin cup. It's still tougher in the Army...