Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their White House press conferences last week, newshawks sensed something extraordinary about President Roosevelt. He behaved as if he were privy to some enormous secret joke which made him feel particularly good. But for all their fishing with well-baited questions the correspondents could get nothing more from him than that he might be sending still another special message to Congress that afternoon. Thus it was no great surprise when White House Messenger Latta trotted into the Capitol at 2 o'clock that same day with a Presidential document under his arm, trotted out again. What was surprising...
...first three rounds the fun-loving Californian justified his reputation for high jinks. Dancing about in his black trunks adorned with a six-pointed Star of David, Baer feinted ferociously with his right, then danced away again smirking at Braddock as if he were some huge private joke. Irritated at the champion's clowning, the crowd shouted encouragement, warnings, admonitions to the challenger...
Meanwhile, the "River of Doubt" had become a great popular joke in the U. S. First a noisy controversy arose as to whether such a river actually existed. The newspapers jumped into the fray. Cartoons appeared featuring a burly figure with buck teeth and thick-lensed glasses, and a nebulous torrent. Editorials were written on both sides of the quarrel. The "River of Doubt" became a household phrase and the country had a grand time...
...Worst joke: "I'm St. Peter's brother, Salt Peter." Best tune: "Let's Swing...
Among U. S. literary groups, the writers who have settled in New Mexico have a reputation for being the most humorless of the lot. But in Witter Bynner New Mexico can claim at least one poet who knows and appreciates a joke, and who has the distinction of being the author of a major literary hoax. In 1916 when U. S. excitement over free verse, imagism, vorticism, and other strange movements was red hot. Author Bynner, in collaboration with Arthur Davison Ficke, dashed off a few nonsensical poems, signed them with a pseudonym, "Emanuel Morgan," declared them expressions...