Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motion picture theatre when bystanders intervened. Truck drivers passing through Manchester became so irked at what they considered unwarranted pouncing by Policeman Connors that they threatened to bring him to grief by making sudden stops with their air brakes while he was following behind on his motorcycle. Standing joke in the region: "It's too bad Connors' own family don't drive, or he'd spend all his time arresting them and let the rest of us alone...
...Some suspicious New Dealers thought this phrase was a joke to make the new law ineffective. Drafters of the bill insisted it was just the contrary: inserted to make the law work, because a law giving the Attorney General the right to intervene in cases where the Government has no interest would be unconstitutional...
...Yorker did not reveal: that the "group of animal lovers" was one Marcia O'Day, attractive little 28-year-old brunette; that the Mouse Beautiful started as a joke among her friends; that Miss O'Day does not breed mice but buys them from a pet shop...
Reasonable Claim, Great Joke...
...sorry to say that during the last few months Germany has done her best to justify that criticism. . . . We sit around and hold meetings of the Non-intervention Committee, and I have no doubt that the German Ambassador [Ribbentrop] and the Italian Ambassador [Grandi] regard it as a great joke. . . . Is this cruel imposture going on any longer...