Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After recovery a patient's emotional responses are vivid but somewhat superficial. He is indifferent to social amenities, may speak his mind and joke so tactlessly that he embarrasses his family and friends. Yet he will apologize for his behavior with real sincerity. His foresight is impaired. Some of these changes would be undesirable if the alternative-an unchanged psychotic personality leading to complete insanity-were not much worse...
Ever since suave Cosmo Gordon Lang retired from the see of Canterbury last spring, Britons have become increasingly aware that their traditionally staid and conservative Church of England is now headed by a pair of Christian revolutionaries. Last week both of these Anglican prelates-joke-loving William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, and hike-loving Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York and Primate of England-got up on the same platform in smoky Birmingham and spoke words that put the Church on the side of Socialism, if not of revolution...
...shortages. These make caterers' chief peacetime problems-practical jokers and snitchers-seem almost academic. But at least one big factory feeder still remembers with horror the day when a workman slipped some potassium cyanide he had pinched from the production line into some of its sandwiches. Before the "joke" was discovered, one man had died and another had had a close call...
Easy Aces, has always broadcast at the same hour as Amos 'n' Andy, has never achieved a listener rating worth crowing about. But instead of being sensitive, the Aces consider it an uproarious joke on themselves...
...Selected younger candidates will be added to Lampy's large-scale draft-dodging scheme," Eric Larrabee '43, secretary, added. "Partiality to 4-F's is already the guiding rule in choosing members of this immature joke-sheet." Speedball O'Shaughnessy of De Wolfe Street, long the official bootblack for the Ibis-nest adolescents, is being groomed for the presidency, according to a current rumor, but this was vigorously denied by Michael J. Sullivan...