Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lucky Jaspara Servia recovered, after Dr. John S. Deyell of Ravenna sewed up two five-inch rips in the bowel. Pranksters Daniel Desko and Frank Pudaski, who admitted inflating Servia as "a practical joke," were arrested, held in $500 bond on charges of assault...
Cricket tests between England and Australia are played for a non-existent prize, the "Ashes." When Australia won the first test ever played, a wag in Punch said: ''The body of cricket lies in England but the ashes are in Australia." That was in 1876; a cricket joke lasts even longer than a test match. The fact that Englishmen make occasional quips about cricket, the leisurely routine in which the tests proceed, lead only stupid aliens to believe that the game is not serious. On the special car in which the Australian side traveled in England, a sign...
Cinemaddicts who failed to understand this antique joke will not be historically enlightened by Twentieth Century's brief biography of the greatest goldsmith of the 16th Century. It exhibits Cellini only once in his studio and even then he works without enthusiasm. It is a portrait of him in his spare time, not as the artist but as the medieval playboy, dashing, sly and consecrated to misconduct. Magnificently acted by Frank Morgan, Fredric March and Constance Bennett, directed with delicacy by Gregory La Cava, The Affairs of Cellini is an uproarious and gracefully ribald costume play, rarely informative but almost...
...Retold is the familiar narrative about a young actress who makes good and her overconfident lover, a sidewalk concessionaire named Nicky Nelson (Jack Oakie), who absents himself during" the middle of the story to facilitate her career. Best song: "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming." Best joke: the reply of Nicky Nelson's ticket taker when he asks her to go back and wait at their hotel...
...teaching job was all that gave Henry Lester Smith to Education instead of to the clothing business when he finished college. Last month Mrs. Smith received a Ph.D. at Indiana and next autumn his daughter Martha, eldest of the Smith children, will enter the university at 16. Affable and joke-loving, N. E. A. President Smith plays an occasional round of golf but spends most of his spare time on his single hobby: World Peace through Education...