Word: joking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World Court cannot be divided from the League of Nations- unless we want to make it a joke!"-Senator Oscar W. Underwood in An interview at Chattanooga. "The League of Nations and the World Court are about as related as Booker T. Washington and George!" -Ex-Senator Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota. (Mr. Kellogg favors U. S. entry into the Court, would avoid the League.) Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, said in a speech at East Liverpool, Ohio, that during the front porch campaign of 1920, the then Senator Harding told him: "I want the U. S. to get into...
...Make the Diet a real parliamentary body instead of an impotent joke...
...psychoanalytic, auto-suggestive note was carried through the entire number, even to the joke department, in which appeared...
Contrary to the opinion of many Americans, the Royalist question is not treated as a joke by the French public. Ever since the war there has been a growing movement of a serious nature in Royalist circles. During the war many Royalists distinguished themselves, and in many cases earned the respect, if nothing more, of the public. The number of "young aristocrats'' in favor of the Republic are few indeed, except perhaps those of the First and Second Empires, whose cause is practically dead...
Camelots du Roi. The French do not consider them a joke...