Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People often claim that Harvard prestige and wealth make for special privilege. It can be pointed out that Harvard has utilized no influence in this trial whatsoever; she did not even educate the Judge. Consequently, the responsibility for the sentence, which must seem like a joke to the public and a triumph to vested interests, rests solely with Judge Green, not with the College...
...lunch, out again in the afternoon. Passing the golf links he occasionally stopped to jibe at newshawks at play. Passing their cottage where a sore-muscled group was lounging on the veranda he shouted: ''How are the cripples this morning?" and drove on roaring at his own joke. Also he took the first good afternoon to drive out to his 2,500-acre farm where he learned from Manager Otis Moore that the corn crop had been 1,300 bu., the best ever, inspected a number of new sheds built of lumber grown on the place and sawed...
...They have had a guiding hand in the drafting of nearly all legialation expert the NRA, he days. To them the constitution is just a foil for clever fencing- an antediluvian joke to be respected in public like a Sacred Cow and regarded in private somewhat as Gertrude Stein probably regards the poet Tennyson, or any other Victorian...
...Governor-General, who for two years acted as King George's personal representative and Lord High Commissioner to the Assembly of the Church of Scotland (TIME, June 5, 1933), quotes as his best joke what was said by a sturdy churchman in bitter-end objection to the union of the Scottish churches: "It is unconstitutional. It is impractical. It is illogical and absolutely idiotic! But I hae no doot it is God's will...
...inadequacy of Harvard Hall has run the gamut from the joke of the University to the point where it is a genuine menance to the safety of the students it serves. Old buildings, untouched by the coarse hands of modernity, are treasures of which one can always be proud, but when they have become such a indispensable utility as Harvard Hall, colonial quaintness must give way to necessary alteration...