Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the new Heinkels [German] and the new Savoias [Italian], let alone our new Bristols, Faireys and Hawkers and Armstrongs, the French Air Force is a joke...
...inception of the movement at Princeton was received hilariously all over the country as a clever joke relieving the midwinter monotony on Prospect Street. It rapidly expanded to two hundred posts with twenty-two thousand members. Gold Star Mothers and Foreign Correspondents of Future Wars were invented. Buttonholed pedestrians on New York streets jovially contributed quarters. But it was all in the same hilarious spirit, and eagerly backed up by a press that is always ready to play up any college joke...
However, the reactions of angry Congressmen, Legionnaires, and professional patriots have proved the adage that "where the shot hits, there the feathers fly." The potentialities of the movement as an effective satire have been realized. A joke gets known more widely and more rapidly than a philosophy thesis, and as such, the movement has swept the nation's campuses. But it is at this point that the Veterans of Future Wars need a solid foundation under them. That foundation must be utter seriousness, thinly veiled by the humor of the idea, and not vice versa. As an example, a Future...
...Captain Andrews turned up at Christopher Columbus' home port two months later, he stole the show from reproductions of Columbus' fleet which had sailed to publicize the Chicago World's Fair. Sapolio's name became so well-known in Europe that Punch made a bad joke to the effect that children knew it better than Napoleon...
...Lent," said Dr. Steele, "as now conceived, has come to be, for one group of Protestants, largely of Episcopalians to be sure, nothing but a joke; to another group, it is an intolerable bore." Dr. Steele calculated that in Philadelphia's Episcopal churches alone, extra Lenten service required 10,000 hours. Summed up Philadelphia's sharpest pulpiteer...