Word: joking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirits are substantial enough to reflect light, and why the timid creatures, shrinking to invisibility before human gaze, pose so graciously for the photographer. But who will explain the face of Battling Siki among the ethereal throng? Perhaps, the spirits were merely indulging in a low order of practical joke. Such humor, however, is scarcely worthy of men who have attained a more or less fixed station in life, or out of it: and any such explanation must be regarded as a feeble excuse for the somewhat chagrined Sketch...
...singing Viva Mussolin!" By the next morning, of course, they had cooled down and had apologized, Yet there was a final ripple to the excitement that illustrates beautifully, considered themselves insulted by the Italians accusations-all, that is, save one American judge, who took the whole affair as a joke. Whereupon the Italian, hearing of his coolness, took that coolness toward their insults as an insult to themselves! A double-hitch on the problem of "honor" that goes far to explain, and laguh away, a great many of the dangerous "dissensions" that marred the Games! Far from being "mischieyous", such...
...partner, Vladimiroff, to music by Glazunov. Again with Vladimiroff, she did her famed Caucasian Dances, a slinky lady then, wild and jimp with shiny eyes, while a little drum tapped like a drunken heartbeat. In a dance called the "Polka Vendredi," with the flavor of a dirty joke of the '70's, she became the sort of person that modern Chief Justices and aging college presidents were warned against in their salad days-a saucy, swaggering, heliotroped trollop. Young blades regarding her shivered slightly with a fear that all had not yet been told them; old bucks wiped...
General Primo de Rivera, like all military geniuses, may be too opaque to see the joke, but if he does, Bagaria were better in Mars than in Spain. It is scarcely good policy to pull the lion's tail when one is locked alone with him in the cage...
...have worked at the Lampoon long enough to know what a joke is," he declared. "But I think this is carrying a joke too far. I don't want people to think I am the sort of fellow to vote one way one day and another the next. I have voted the Republican ticket for 40 years...