Word: joking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examined the headband of his newspaper to see if he had not picked up the informal New York World by mistake. But no, it was indeed the New York Times. Strange! Something certainly had come over that fatherly, dignified compendium, something that began perhaps, when the Times cracked its joke, amazing because so unexpected, about Fannie Brice's nose three years ago† something that was again evident when, last summer, the Times departed from its rule against "features" and began printing the labored wit of Funnyman Will Rogers (TIME, Aug. 16). The Times, patrician of the press...
...that Mr. Kendall has any right to attempt is bondsalesmanship in three lessons. The extended paw and the unrelenting finger of the go-getter is his. His flair for comedy saves him at times, but after all nothing is so invaluable to a bond salesman as the ready joke...
...term "Big Three" from an athletic standpoint is a joke. There are twenty institutions who could thrash any one of us three times out of five. But the traditional association and common heritage of these three institutions is a real and fine thing and no silly sophomore yellowness should be allowed to undermine it. Yours very truly, David Gray...
...Grace, my dear, the joke...
...removal, and became, at 304, the Street Cleaning Commissioner. All the newspapers characterized his work in the department as "spectacular." And already he had won the Carnegie medal for bravery. He had been standing, that one afternoon beside Mayor Gaynor, as was his custom. It had become an old joke among those who did not like him that "Big Bill" Edwards always stood beside somebody. Whenever cameras clicked, he stood beside somebody, and in the following Sunday's rotogravures you saw somebody's picture and (in small type, reading left to right) "Big Bill" Edwards. People who called...