Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joke...
Although it must be candidly admitted that it is a joke to try to regiment sociability, the removal of the exclusive tutors' table is a long and bold step in the direction of attaining the desirable intimate relationship between instructor and student...
That the University speedily denied the charge did nothing to heal the wounded pride of Zoologist Cahn. Whatever the moose louse meant to Pamphleteers Hitchner & Ellis, it was no joke to the moose. Large numbers of the animals had lost their hair, died. Dr. Cahn spent his vacation and his own money to identify the tick. Although his own University had not contributed a penny, the National Research Council had thought the work important enough to make him a small grant. The more Dr. Cahn thought about it, the more furious he became. Last week he sued Pamphleteers Hitchner & Ellis...
...Boston's swank Vincent Club with placards demanding the "resignation" from the club of Mary Curley, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley and not a Vincent member. Picked up by police, the ragamuffins said that Kermit Roosevelt Jr. and another Harvard freshman hired them as a joke on the clubgirls...
Coach Wes Fesler was the victim of a practical joke by the stork when that obstetrical bird, in the guise of a Western Union messenger, brought him another little one between the halves. The mentor blushed prettily, but was seen to give an audible gasp of relief when closer inspection showed that 'twas but a doll...