Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the U.S. Army suddenly decided to sell Chicago's huge Stevens Hotel last June (TIME, June 28), the joke was on the Army. Reasons: 1) only six months before, the Army had shelled out $6,000,000 to buy the Stevens for an Air Forces training school; 2) only three months before, it had auctioned off some $2,000,000 worth of irreplaceable furnishings for less than $500,000 in cash...
...Foundation and what keeps it ticking, Lawson says it is a nonprofit organization which gets its funds by selling his lucubrations. Improbable as that may seem, the Direct Credits Society's rating is no joke to Dun & Bradstreet. On that score at least, Des Moines had nothing to lose. Said one practical businessman last week: "If he's got money to spend, let him spend it here...
...Eire (but that was an English joke...
When I first saw Mr. Patterson's so-called Slate for Normalcy" letter in TIME, June 21, I thought that it was a well-meaning joke. However, as I read farther, I became aware that the letter, despite its contents, was sincere...
...since the point of the story is that Madame Rowena's establishment is mis taken for a girl's school - the plot could hardly have unwound, which might have been a very good thing. For, without letup, the book grinds its spurs into its one spavined joke from a starting post of tastelessness to a finish line of tedium...