Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major moves by which Benito Mussolini jacked his country above the status of a second-class power was to put the lira, previously a wobbly joke currency, squarely on gold (TIME, Jan. 2, 1928). Soon at Pesaro the Lira Monument was reared, cut deep with II Duce's promise to defend the gold lira to the last drop of Italian blood. Since then nothing has occurred to convince the Dictator that any other statesman who inflates, debases or trifles with currency values is not dead wrong. Last week with U. S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Baldwin and Japanese...
...foregoing is the substance of a theological joke, appearing in last week's Living Church, Episcopal high church weekly. Explanation: The parish "up on the Hudson River "is Christ Church. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., whose rector. Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, is an energetic and articulate low churchman (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933 et ante). To insure against high church practices, the Christ Church parish board last month passed a by-law requiring the incumbent "to abstain from the use of any ornaments, forms, services, or ritual which are not definitely allowed by the rubrics of the Book of "Common Prayer...
...life. He grew more & more morose; his mind slowly failed; he became panic-stricken at the thought of his despised wife's leaving him. She accepted an impossible situation, gave him money, buried herself in War work. Upon his death he left her, as one last malicious joke, all his "houses, bonds . . . carriages, yachts, motor cars," except those in the U. S. and France-in other words, nothing but debts. Later his widow found his diary, understood for the first time that her witty, audacious, unscrupulous husband was homosexual...
...include Jimmie Cutting. Mrs. Goelet demanded that he be invited. Mrs. Fish refused. Mrs. Goelet therefore would not let the Grand Duke attend the Fish party given in his honor. Unwilling to disappoint guests anxious to see royalty, Harry Lehr masqueraded as the Tsar of Russia, made a joke of the conflict, amused the absent Grand Duke...
...been regarded as Julia Ward Howe's song, written to the tune of John Brown's Body whose authorship seemed to be unknown. At MacIntyre's request Thomas Brigham Bishop wrote out the tune's true history. Said he: "It was really done as a joke upon my sanctimonious brother...