Word: joking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...learned later. I was unhurt save for a little scratch on my head and a great roaring in my ears and a great craziness in my head. So they sent me back along the endless chain of hospitals--this is the 6th--to rest. That is rather a joke, too, the rest part of it, for you no sooner get settled down than you are evacuated. But even so, I've gathered up a lot of sleep and stored it away, and now I'm all ready to go back again--just as soon as they'll let me, which...
...best limerick is on the front cover. The best advertisement is on the back cover. The best poem is Colonel House's auto-eulogy. The best joke is the one about the inebriate and the soap advertisement. As the drug clerk said of the seidlitz powder, it isn't half...
...notion that a company can learn tactics in a chamber the size of an average lecture hall. To cross the Alps was a great feat in Hannibal's time; it was a simple move compared to giving about face in the Municipal Building. Something must be done for a joke is good only once, but this state of affairs cannot last all winter...
...must admit that we are prone to joke about the so-called "affectation" of the New Englander's speech, but I believe our remarks are made only in fun, and Mr. Norton does not mean to criticize. We realize that our speech is somewhat flat and our voices possibly raucous at times, and we hope that your possible irritation will give way to your good sense so that you may retaliate with a little good natured...
...tormenting question of "Where are my children?" is adequately answered at the very beginning. The editor have labelled the article "censored" but whether this last is a joke in itself must be left to the mind of the individual. The reasons given for our favorite joining the movies seem quite comprehensive. In fact one recognizes at once that they were fitted for no other profession in this wide world...