Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vital movement has been so much as delayed by the exercise of an obvious prohibition such as that to the right of meeting. Those who have exercised it are the buffoons of history, uniformly funny and disreputable. No one thinks of Comstock today as anything but a rather bad joke, and leagues for the extirpation of communism are never patronized by capitalists of a measurable fry. The personnel of a large university, so long as they do not work explicitly, may retard the cause of social revolution with great efficiency, just as those who are successfull in the present order...
...more. In Vienna where he lived his last 30 years he went around in a threadbare alpaca coat, trousers which he cut off above the ankle. He seldom wore a collar, spread his long beard over his shirtfront so that no one would know the difference. Cuffs were a joke. So were socks (he usually went barelegged). So were fatuous admirers on whom he would turn ferociously...
...What a pity, what a joke," cried he, "what a travesty on the original...
...Curry, whose horse has been stumbling along to ignominy in the Gotham mayoralty race, demonstrated in the Albany caucus that Dr. O'Brien can be not only a joke but a joker. For he has Secretary Farley's vote on a resolution pledging unanimous support to regular and trademarked candidates of the Democratic Party. Although the perplexed secretary made awkward efforts to rule out the resolution, he was doomed to failure, for in a party caucus such a resolution is a conventional thing, and cannot be ruled out with any degree of urbanity. This makes his position as the godfather...
...which attendance might be compulsory, would be more than adequate to take care of the main function of the present rambling curriculum. The advantages which a small meeting possesses for instruction in sex hygiene are fairly obvious. Lastly, the examination in the course, which has become a joke should be abolished. Were all this done, each of the two purposes for which Hygiene is now intended would be attained, instead of hampering each other as in the present hybrid state of the course...