Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newspaper readers who remember the Gastonia, N. C. mill strike (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929, et seq.) will recognize bits of the ensuing trial scene. Trial highspots: the prosecution raises a laugh against a defense witness by hanging on him the old joke about getting syphilis in a toilet; the defense successfully counters by showing that a prosecution witness once got drunk, took a horse into a church. The 15 defendants were pronounced guilty; Ring leader Marvin got 25 years in jail. Harry Baumann, caught trying to set fire to his father's mill, sought a final sensation by shooting...
Moscow suddenly realized last week that its prime funny magazine, the Crocodile, had not been seen for a fortnight. Nobody was greatly surprised. But the Crocodile had not been suppressed. Fact was its editors had laughed themselves weak, sick and hysterical, over a joke they had not even printed...
...Have college men a sense of humor? Sometimes it's too keen. Their reaction to humor is not disciplined enough. They come to a show to have a good time and spoil the amusement by being too exuberant and laughing in advance of the joke...
...brought to his senses by a dose of his own medicine, this comedy is compact of witty lines and stale quips, hilarious situations and brummagem tricks. There is the sly, wise grandmother in frumpy clothes (Lucille Watson) who speaks a pure nightclub patois and gets tipsy. There is the joke about flowers with celebrated names planted in the same bed. Some one even gets a chance to remark that Adolf Hitler is "all swelled up with no place to burst." But with adroit acting, shrewd direction, ingratiating sets, the whole comes out a packet of high entertainment...
President Roosevelt boomed out a big laugh, hoisted himself out of his chair. Thus omitted was the formal top-hatted delegation which a more conventional Administration would have expected Congress to have sent down Pennsylvania Avenue to say the same thing that Leader Robinson had made a joke of. His children, grandchildren, wife and friends following in four cars behind, the President rode hatless to the Capitol. His secretaries clucked their tongues at the wreaths of mist which hung about their bareheaded chief as he swung up a ramp to the House wing. On the arm of his son James...