Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 75 undergraduates joined last night in the annual meeting of the April Fool's Day Joke Perpetrators and Civic Club which was held on the east bank of the Charles River...
...Joke...
...celebrated the victory by running out onto the field and setting fire to the stumps, he had carefully collected the remains. Currently, the ashes imported by dashing Ivo Bligh are in the Trophy Chest at Lord's, capital of British cricket, as a monument to an immortal British joke...
Since the picture was intended for mass consumption the comedy is naturally of that level. The constant hammering of a joke does not, however, seem absolutely necessary. The sequences depicting life in a newspaper office are, as usual, somewhat strange. But this is a minor point, for one of the film is done in a serious vein; and the mad antics of city editor Ameche and star reporter Power only add to the zest of the thing...
According to Mr. Landis, the round-table debates left quite a lasting impression on some of the dignitaries. It seems that it was a standing joke in Washington last spring to offer "T. V. A. Cigars" to Wendel F. Wilkie, president of the Commonwealth & Southern Company. This gift that never failed to produce a positive reaction on Arthur Morgan's chief opposition at the conference last year...