Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jasper were horrified but there was nothing they could do but wait. But the Civil War came before Lias did, and swept the men away. Years later, Margot and Cean welcomed their old men home. Lias never came, he was safely dead. His cheerful letter had been a deathbed joke...
...appears to trust. Under Han's protection Feng lived during the summer of 1932 on Taishan, the Sacred Mountain near Confucius' birthplace in Shantung, and proceeded to return there last week "as the climate is good for my asthma." Chinese expected Feng's "asthma"-a standing joke-to last until he sees a fresh chance to rush forth on another profitable military escapade. During his previous retirement the League of Nations Lytton Commission investigating Japan's seizure of Manchuria tried to consult Feng on Taishan, were turned away by the excuse that...
Until last week the standing joke about the B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements) at Basle, Switzerland has been that its vaults contained only one bit of actual money-an antique 25? U. S. gold piece. The B. I. S. was created to transfer by bookkeeping methods millions and billions in all sorts of monies between central banks. Lately a very few bankers decided that the B. I. S., as the only bank in the world not responsible to any one government, might be a good place to keep gold. In its monthly statement last week...
...Newark this spring John Kochorowsky kept telling his neighbors what a fine garden of onions and kohlrabi he was going to have. But something went wrong. Nothing came up. John Kochorowsky's garden became a great neighborhood joke. Meantime the garden next door flourished beautifully, became as famed for fertility as John Kochorowsky's was for sterility. One day last week John Kochorowsky gazed over the fence brooding long and darkly. Then he went down into his cellar, hanged himself...
...Civil War people used to speak of the "Colleges at Cambridge," when speaking of the buildings in the Yard. Here the first Commencement took place in 1642, which included, just as today, orations in Latin and English, elder statesmen and church dignitaries, and hoards of beaming parents. The stock joke of the Latin orations then, as now, was the term, "Pulcherimis puellas," at which the gathering has laughed with boring regularity for 300 years. From 1654 to 1698 Harvard boasted an Indian College a little brick house which stood where Matthews now presents a study in Gothic revival. Indians were...