Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learns a part by glancing through it once or twice, wears glasses when she reads, usually goes to sleep at parties. Her husband is Harmon O. ("Ham") Nelson Jr., bandleader at Hollywood's Colony Club. They went to school together, met again at the 1932 Olympic Games. Davis joke: "Ham is a good egg." Born in a thunderstorm, Bette Davis now considers rainstorms lucky. She is 5 ft. 3 in. tall, weighs 106 Ib. Her figure is insured...
...hold up the Denver stage coach. I was with them. All the others are now dead so there is no reason any longer why I shouldn't reveal it." Denver oldsters took the Yellow Earl's revelations calmly. They recalled that the holdup was a practical joke by the Earl and cowboy friends who heard that a party of Englishmen had taken the Denver coach and decided to scare them. They held up the coach right enough but. suddenly discovering some U. S. mail under the driver's seat and realizing the possible consequences, they scattered like...
...denies having made anything up. By implication he accuses most of his fellow correspondents of falsifying facts. "It is not generally known that foreign journalists in Moscow work under the perpetual threat of losing their visas, and therefore their jobs. . . . The result is that news from Russia is a joke." The news Author Muggeridge retails (especially of the foreign hangers-on, cranks, visitors, converts) is also a joke, boisterously but bitterly told. Some of his wilder scenes remind the reader of Evelyn Waugh...
...neither would he let her have any baby but himself. Bruno was a too-coherent professor whose Jewish intelligence paralyzed his will. When the Magazine he loved to talk about starting finally came to the point of starting, he let it fizzle out in a gargantuan defeatist joke. Though he loved the girl he might have had for the asking and knew she was headed for disaster, he never lifted a finger to save her. These and other characters stand out from the energetic flow of Author Slesinger's narrative, but what makes the book both entertaining and impressive...
...English are surprisingly amusing, and at times highly annoying, but any breath of an English accent is as nectar to the American public and per se assures the picture of success, as is borne out by the reactions of the audience in the present case. So also any joke which the audience does not catch, goes as an extremely subtle Anglicism and draws hearty guffaws...