Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blame the Devil. Dr. Conklin's biological range is wide. His fattest book is on the general subject of Heredity & Environment. This has been translated into French, Russian and Japanese. The Russians, like Dr. Morgan, had a joke at his expense: since formal genetics is a touchy subject in Soviet ideology (TIME, June 26), the Russians deleted page after page that did not suit the party line, then sent him a complimentary copy of his own book, mutilated as well as pirated...
Finally ... let me deny most emphatically that Westbrook's salary is any sort of joke to me. Quite the contrary I do assure...
Nearby Nazis peeked, failed to see the joke, began to slug, and Humorist Curts landed in the Heidelberg cooler. Shrewdly he wrote to his guardian in California: "The beating I received did me a lot of good. . . . Only through this beating did I really get an opportunity to know the German people. . . . How beautiful, how industrious, how serene it is here in Germany. ..." Again the Nazis peeked and, touched by such sincere repentance plus representations from the U. S. State Department, the Ministry of Justice last week decided to release young Curts after only a month in jail...
...little baffled by the money some people get. His younger son grew up to be an advertising man with a big income, and that was all right with him. But for Westbrook to make $46,000 a year writing for newspapers is to Arthur Pegler a stupendous joke on somebody. Mr. Pegler calls Westbrook "Buddy...
Contrary to common belief, waves do not reveal intelligence, or even what the subject has on his mind. When the patient was asked to think of the most obscene joke he know of, his brain waves showed not the slightest variations...