Word: joking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want to send him to college, a good one, if possible. Of the big ones, which is the easiest? He has good manners and weighs 165 pounds at 19 but he simply has no sense. Where will he have the best chance to get by? This is no joke. I am a busy man, and serious...
...recorded as a matter of form, with dignity and brevity. To this category belongs the item about the Prince of Wales falling off his horse. It has appeared in the press 15 times in the last five years, and the first ten times it ceased to be a joke. The public expects this story to be treated literally, tersely, like the report of a drop in the temperature or a tumble in stocks ? PRINCE HAS QUICK FALL YESTERDAY or SHARP DECLINE FOR WALES. But last week the readers of the New York World were amazed to see the familiar...
...want to send him to college--a good one, if possible. Of the big ones, which is the easiest? He has good manners and weighs 165 pounds at 19, but he simply has no sense. Where will he have the best chance to get by? This is no joke. I am a busy man, and serious. Manufacturer, Cincinnati...
...feel very happy about the entirely new spirit that has come with the abolition of compulsion. In the recent past, daily services were worse than a joke-blasphemy under the name of religion. The men would cough, read books and magazines and talk with one another. Even during the Sunday services . . . there was always the feeling that the lid might blow off at any time. . . . I would rather have 50 interested men coming here willingly than 1,500 coming because they have to and sitting through the services mad." Thus Rev. Roy B. Chamberlain, writing last week in the Boston...
...till then, respected member of the neighborhood, so shocked the world by bringing forth a lusty, roly-poly boy who was to prove himself the plague of wit and humor. Who was his father no one knew, though there were many guesses. But in commemoration of the joke his mother played upon society, the child was called Lampoon...