Word: joking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speakers for the Debating Union discussion "Resolved, That this house regards prohibition as a practical joke," to be held in the Faculty Room of the Union at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening, were announced last night. The affirmative of the question will be upheld by A. P. Donovan ocC., M. M. Drake '27, and A. G. Cooke '26; the negative by J. R. Creel '27, George Slaff '26, and Joseph Skinner '26. All of these men have had wide experience in public speaking...
...third meeting of the Debating Union will take place in its former meeting place, the faculty room of the Union, December 16 at 8 o'clock. The subject to be debated is "Resolved: that this house regards Prohibition as a practical joke...
...Manhattan grill while the elbows of the knowing onlookers dig the ribs of the innocent ones and murmurs float above the clatter of the table d'hôte: "There's Oontermeyer!" "There's Bennett!" One afternoon, after the coffee, suggested Poet Markham, a joke went round the company; pencils flashed from waistcoat pockets, and the Child Genius, Nathalia Crane, was born upon the back of a menu-card...
...true to its tradition, the tradition of the East. Only recently a new proof of this was brought to light when some Turkish schoolchildren put a tack in the teacher's chair. Of course, they had been led by an infiltration of western ideas to believe that such a joke would so pain the teacher as to amuse the class. They reckoned not upon the Oriental influences that were to work upon that tack...
...suppressed issue was called "The Parisian Number"; on its mottled cover a young woman, silhouetted in white-space, stepped into the profile of a bathtub over the caption "Cut Out by the Censor"; on its first page appeared a joke that was characteristic of the issue?a joke printed in French, and making a play of the words "habits" (clothes) and "explorer" (to go through). "Translation on page 31," said the editors. "Ha! this matter must be salacious," cried the vulgar reader: ". . . habits de mon mari. J'ai I'habitude de les explorer tous les soirs." Though ignorant of French...