Word: joking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sends notes by Juana, while Narciso is out of the room, urging three of his friends in the neighborhood to come at once. They appear one by one, pretending to be the injured husbands of the women who have sent the flowers. In the burlesque scene which follows the joke is turned on Narciso, but the amicable relations of the five friends are not upset by the fun, and as the curtain falls they drink to each others' health in a hearty toast...
...years ago two class-mates of mine "Out" for the Lampoon, used regularly to devote a portion of each day, rain or shine, to helping each other think up jokes. Apparently times have not changed, not the ways of candidates or editors in them. Yet jokes, like poets, are born, not made. Humor means, if anything, an irrepressible, sensitiveness to incongruities, and contradictions in things, unspirited, be it added, by any immediate desire to correct them. Its expression is a revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial...
Class football series have too long been regarded as a joke--at any rate that is the most charitable explanation of unfair tactics which have frequently appeared among the players as well as the spectators. This year the captains are doing their best to insure fair contests, but they will not succeed unless the supporters of the teams refrain from taking a hand in the game. The winners of the series are awarded numerals--a distinction which should carry sufficient weight to check any sympathetic playing by the crowd...
After much solicitation the CRIMSON has consented to win its annual victory at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field over the collection of joke exhumers, known as the Lampoon baseball team. This concession has been wrung from the CRIMSON by the urgent appeals of disappointed subscribers to the Lampoon, who as a compensation for their wasted dollars will be admitted free to the game...
...Rivera '09, a native Porto Rican, acted the complicated role of Don Narciso to perfection. His boasting over-bearance when he first receives the bouquets, his terror-stricken surprise as the pretended husbands challenge him to duel, and his laughing submission when he finally sees that the joke is on him were realistically performed. M. H. Woolman sC. made a capital Don Ramon, successfully taking the audience into his confidence when he turned the joke on Don Narciso, and indulged in unrestrained laughter...