Word: joking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abandoned monosyllabic titles," the author of Salt, Brass and Bread told me. "What," I then asked, "is to be the title of your next novel?" "Pig Iron," he replied-and the joke seemed to be on me. Charles Norris says that he can produce only one novel every two years; that he is 75,000 words towards the finish of this new study of the struggle between materialism and the spirit, and that means only half done. While in Italy, he worked every day, from early morning until late afternoon. Mr. Norris does not write with the flow...
...GALLIVAN OF MASSACHUSETTS: "All I want to ask is whether the gentleman believes that, instead of this bill coming from the Committee on Ways and Means, it comes from Joe Miller's joke book...
...occupants of the motor launch "Class of '92" could not see anything wrong with the steam launch "John Harvard" as the Latter boat lay stranded, in the middle of the Charles, and thought the frantic waving of Coach Newell and the others in a boat a part of some joke, closer inquiry disclosed that the smoke-stack of the steam launch had blown off and sunk to the bottom of the river. The "John Harvard" was no longer able to keep up team, and lay drifting helplessly in the middle of the Charles. The boat was towed back...
...lightly turns to throwing paper, matches, and electric light bulbs out the window. As the game progresses details are added. Trying to break the lights on the opposite side of the Oval with a piece of kindling wood or a bottle is an absorbing pastime. It is a huge joke on the janitors. If one can drop a chair on a campus policeman it counts six, a chair and a book-case eight, and the joke is on the policeman. Setting fire to the round-house wins the game. Thus all the teeming youth, the splendid young manhood...
...hurry. He took his seat in the House and voted, but quite forgot that he had not taken the oath. The penalty for failing to take the oath before voting is loss of a member's seat and a ?500 fine. The matter was treated as a great joke. "We all regret," said W. M. R. Pringle (Liberal), "this misadventure to Major Astor. What is the Government's attitude in regard to the pecuniary penalty?" "They are going to take his money," said the Laborite David Kirkwood with glee. But the Government omitted the penalty. Nevertheless, Major Astor...