Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the flamboyantly modernistic French Château de I'Horizon at Juan-les-Pins which he has rented from oldtime Actress Maxine Elliott. Last week Britons viewed bug-eyed in their illustrated papers pictures of this Hollywood setting, complete with ''artificial moonlight" and a practical joke swimming chute. Fun is had when a guest sits down and lets go, only to discover too late that he is sliding 30 feet down on abrasive cement...
...mouth is a joke, a leer, a sewer, Her teeth lacerate her tongue when she speaks...
Katherine and Murry had a hard time supporting themselves, let alone Rhythm, but they struggled along somehow, cheated by landlords, threatened with bankruptcy proceedings by printers. Says Murry: "By reason of their unremitting vicissitudes, the Murry-Mansfields were in danger of becoming a standing joke." An added complication was their intimacy with D. H. and Frieda Lawrence, who were exciting but impossible to live with. Once Katherine left Murry for another man with whom she thought she was in love. Murry says he was not jealous, knew she would come back. She did, but their good days together were over...
Austria, under a foreign-supported and schismatic dictatorship (see p. 20), is the only nation to produce underground rebels with a sense of humor. Their best joke: to distribute an official-looking notice on counterfeit police stationery warning the populace to defend itself against ordinary criminals because all the energies of the police were required to catch political criminals...
Minor suspense developed before the opening over whether Academician Gerald Festus Kelly would submit the customary portrait of his wife, Jane. Three years ago he broke off the series of Janes because they had become an Academy joke, promised this year to prove his versatility by submitting a portrait of Eton's provost, Dr. Montague Rhodes James. Dr. James fell ill and Artist Kelly ended by submitting another Jane, this time in a blue 18th Century gown...