Word: joking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...return of the Chinese students is bright and entertaining. The Fat-men's Corner contains many droll things; one or two, however, we notice that the Transcript would have done well to leave out. We would remind the editors that vulgarity is not wit, and a coarse joke is a serious blot on a college paper...
...could I," said Yung; and they both laughed, as if it were a joke...
...written a word yet. What a fool I am! How I wish, instead of spending the evening with that English-American Pressed-coat Poole, I had come home and ground! I wonder what this paper is on the floor. Why, it's the morning Echo! 'E??? Echo, ha! ha! joke. Give that to their item editor, poor thing! What's this editorial? 'The Greek Play.' Oh! take it away. Throw paper in the fire. What wouldn't I give for a dozen Little Neck clams. Well, there goes the twelve o'clock bell, and I must brace. Think...
...towards the end of our chat I became painfully aware that I had not accomplished my object, so I turned the conversation from morning prayers to early marriages. My young friend seemed to think I was meditating something of the sort [what sort?] and to consider it a huge joke [why?], for she only called me a silly boy as she bade me a "touching" [ambiguous] good...
...FRESHMAN was invited to breakfast with the President, but refused to go, believing that the invitation was the result of a joke...