Word: joking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...small floating islands of joy which the child laughs at and seeks to capture. In life at college one may also find numerous sun circles. A person with a real smile makes the difference of a cloudy day changed to a sunshiny day. The slightest semblance of a joke, in a tense atmosphere of a class room, often causes the whole assemblage to laugh violently. The earnest person needs many sun circles flashed into his make-up to keep him human and with a true perspective. An occasional joke or smile or other evidence of sense of humor trickle...
...fair-minded person conclude that the fact "that Henry Ford received thirty-two votes on the first ballot for Republican nominee is a national joke (or disgrace) that should not pass without comment"? Surely such a conclusion should not pass without comment. The author fails completely in his effort to grasp the significance of the expression given by the votes of the delegates from Michigan and Nebraska. He sees but one side of the preparedness movement,--the military; while the delegates from Michigan and Nebraska were able to see the other side,--the economic. And Henry Ford, above all others...
...sailed for Europe with a following of cranks and unbalanced school teachers to bring about an international settlement whose importance and difficulty will surpass the problems that faced the Congress of Vienna-that Henry Ford received thirty-two votes on the first ballot for Republican nominee is a national joke (or disgrace) that should not pass without comment. Bismarck and Moltke must roll over in their graves, and Joffre and Sir Edward Gray turn to the American news for amusing relaxation from the colossal problems of "civilization's fight for self-preservation." M. F. TALBOT...
...Seniors and the Freshmen on the Library steps yesterday when the Freshmen were prevented from having their group photograph taken because they did not respond with the desired generosity to the Seniors' appeal. So long as this contribution to the Seniors' picnic was taken as a sort of joke and was made the occasion for a little banter and levity, no one could object much, though some of us have though the custom an innovation in very questionable taste...
...drop this whole business. It has had its day as a joke and has outgrown that stage. It should now be a thing of the past. AN INTERESTED GRADUATE...