Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tell a good joke, and just what distinguishes a belly-buster from a total flop is the subject of a recent thesis compiled by Dr. Richard N. Sears '27 under the auspices of the Psychology Department...
...official release reads in part: "The most crucial part in telling a joke, Dr. Sears discovered, comes just when the point of the story is about to be revealed. If an interruption is made at this time, the joke is almost certain to be spoiled...
Uncertain grins appeared below the beaks of the newshawks. There was dead silence. Used to Presidential leg-pulling, they waited for the joker. Then gradually it. dawned on them that the only joke was the President's deliberate error with the middle initials of Messrs. Baruch and Johnson, that he was stealing the show from the Senate munitions investigation. The correspondents began to babble questions and Franklin Roosevelt beamed at the success of his pleasantry...
...Chet's served up this till now, whenever we be a joke on him, his him before he want under the first time...
...when she can control the wobblings of her lower lip, is an actress as skillful and sensitive as she is presentable. The best moments in The White Parade are those in which she is conducting a love affair with a Boston polo player (John Boles), which begins as a joke and ends in what most cinemaddicts are likely to mistake for tragedy. Good shot: Jane Darwell, as a gruff head nurse, persuading her superior not to oust Loretta two weeks before graduation...