Word: joking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instead of acceptances, protests began to flow in. The authors of the invitation insisted that it was " only a joke " and not intended to be taken seriously, but the entertainment was cancelled and Justice Sutherland missed a dinner...
...starred mariner are the following: (1) Checkbook; (2) Joyce's Ulysses; (3) Cicero's De Senectute; (4) Walter Camp's Daily Dozen; (5) Cookbook; (6) Coué's Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion; (7) The Bartender's Guide; (8) The family photograph album; (9) Joke Book; (10) The Book of Etiquette...
...What!" will be exclaimed, "this is not the joke of columnists? Why, you have double-crossed us--the sun has indeed run amuck! Let us have a new election." But what will happen after that, no one, not even the man who sees good in everything, would dare conjecture...
...powers at Lausanne can see through Kemal's little joke, they will be better prepared to form a united policy. It was failure on the part of England and France to smooth down the irritating roughness in their conflicting interests that has given Kemal his present advantage. If now again, British and French statesmen fail to present a united front, the Nationalist leader and his hard-of-hearing plenipotentiary (whose other senses are keen enough) are headed for a signal victory at Lausanne...
...pass unnoticed", and that this matter concerning profanity is something for "all sober-minded Harvard 'men" to think about. However, it was too bad that you should introduce such child's play in your last remarks; and, above all, that you had to bring in that much-strained joke about giving the name of "H. E. L. L." (Harvard Emasculated Language League) to a society which might be formed to combat the bad language of today. If you have no helpful suggestions to make about this work in Verona (and most obviously you have not), you will do best...