Word: joking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Englishmen the whole affair appealed chiefly as an excruciating, inverted Scotch joke; but a larger significance loomed in the fact that the two groups which bid for The Aberdeen Journal are the gigantic, rival newspaper trusts headed respectively by Viscount Rothermere and by the Berry Brothers, Sir William & Corner...
Alice in Wonderland is a joke that some see, and some, deserving pity rather than scorn, do not. The same categories apply to the joke by Alice Jr.'s father, Colyumist Hope of the New York Herald-Tribune. Though his verse falls far short of Lewis Carroll's the narrative (packed as it is with social & political quips, flagrant puns and rare etymology) does credit to the English mathematician, and surpasses in satire more serious-minded modern U. S. Jeremiads. So also Rea Irvin's illustrations, which are excellently done...
...Army. "I do not think," writes Miss Thompson, "that anyone who has ever seen a Red Army demonstration will ever again treat Communism as a joke. . . . The army is ... well fed, well clothed and well housed ... a compact army of 562,000 . . . absolutely proletarian in its sympathies...
Mayor: "You told me the best joke I ever heard...
...Robert E. Lee joke is in bad taste. The Old Grad has always been, and is, too much for this reviewer to wade through, and the Conversations Overheard at a Department Store Art Exhibit can hardly be appreciated unless one has been to the Jordan Marsh jamboree. Oh, by the way! Most of the critical dicta in these conversations might well be applied to the Lampoon itself, depending on one's prejudices...