Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...premature for China to grant such rights to Japan in all Chinese provinces, the Chinese Government would permit Japanese military co-operation in assisting it to exterminate Communism and banditry in the Chinese provinces of Manchuria, Jehol, East Hopei and Northern Chahar. The point of this uproarious Chinese joke could not entirely escape even glum Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe upon whom it was sprung with the utmost Chinese decorum-for Mr. Kawagoe well knows that the areas specified are precisely those which Japanese soldiers already dominate and have detached or are trying to detach from China...
...Joke v. Blow. Lacking though it is in humor, the Japanese Army knows that any joke can be answered by a sufficiently heavy blow. Last week the Japanese Army proper did not move, but Japanese sent 30,000 of their puppet Manchukuoan troops and Mongolian allies on a thundering raid from Chahar, northwest of Peiping, into Suiyuan. The invaders were equipped with tanks, armored cars and battle planes of Japanese manufacture. Actual news from this remote region was scant but early and Chinese-censored dispatches made world headlines thrilling to thousands of Chinese laundrymen and other expatriate Celestials: CHINESE DEFEAT...
...over a fake precipice, ordered to make faces at the camera, before he was politely informed that the whole scheme had been dropped. When he heard that William Archer was also hood winked he was content. "God forbid," he said, "that anyone should say I did not see a joke, if William Archer could...
Fortnight ago, to show that she considers the whole thing a "rather sporting effort'' and a rattling good maritime joke, salty Lady Houston bought the Girl Pat for $16,500, said she was going to present her to the Orsbornes. The philanthropic widow who so admires virility planked down $2,500 more to cover the cost of returning the Girl Pat from Guiana to Eng land. Up in Old Bailey Court last week stood Dod & Jim Orsborne to plead not guilty of stealing the Girl Pat. As defense, they declared that they had made off with the trawler...
After twelve years on the Baltimore Sun, which opposes both Roosevelt and Landon, Edmund Duffy is disposed to regard politics as a joke. This year he has drawn a wry-mouthed Franklin Roosevelt and a pompous, silk-hatted GOP with equal indifference, saved his enthusiasm for the cause of Peace...