Word: joking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...apology to the Courant. Next time it appears to make a blunder, we shall understand that it is "roughing" the Record. We had no intentions of interfering in a family quarrel, - that is, a family joke. We hope the Courant's ungallant remarks on "wanton exhibitions of feminine levity and frivolity" (i. e. young ladies' talking in the Library) are also a joke but they sound rather too serious to be quite polite...
...Goddes bones to meet him was no joke...
...sorry to see that poor Lampy has fallen into such a sad plight that when he attempts to quote a good joke or saying, he misses the point...
...college puns, nor does he, at the critical moment, lay an exposition of his feelings before the lady, marked by all the elaborateness and ingenuity of a law-argument. The remarks of these chivalric knights on such occasions must have had an effect similar to that produced by a joke when told in ten times as many words as are necessary, and the fair maiden must have felt that all this flowery "gush" was far inferior to the "dumb eloquence" that accompanied it. But the modern hero has the good taste to perceive that a display of rhetoric...
...seems that the Wesleyan young lady was not chosen class-day poet, but poet for the class supper. The whole affair was a joke, and as soon as the young lady found out the character of the supper, which is like class suppers in general, she was glad to resign. There was no ill feeling on either side...