Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold coins, particularly $5 pieces which have been experimentally minted but never put into circulation. Once he wrote a book on numismatics which begins: "Coins are the metallic footprints of nations." He has a rare collection of the etchings of George Cruikshank, Dickens' illustrator. A standing joke of Mr. Roosevelt's to ward off press queries: "I've been discussing Mr. Woodin's Cruikshanks." Prominent in his delicate, heartshaped countenance are Mr. Woodin's twinkling blue eyes and his small mouth, a cupid's but firm. He plumes himself on his punning. Last week...
...years in a Republican Senate were ones of irresponsible fun at the expense of the G. O. P. He teased and tormented Henry Cabot Lodge. He smeared President Harding with mock sympathy. He tweaked and twitted President Coolidge. He first put in circulation the "dammed, drained and ditched" joke on Engineer Hoover. But his gibes were always in loud good humor and after a particularly spirited attack he would stroll off to a ball game arm-in-arm with Republican Leader Watson. Always the smart politician. Democrat Harrison played close to the Brown Derby in 1928, was an early passenger...
...never worked in a bank which received or paid out cash. At Basle they send and receive cablegrams and telegrams transferring millions and hundreds of millions, on paper. Often a telephone call suffices. In their safe, some two feet wide by four high, they keep as a solemn joke two coins, a tiny 25? California gold piece (genuine) and a reputed Spanish sovereign (counterfeit). The important thing is that since the B. I. S. was founded in 1930 it has slowly become "The Central Bank of Central Banks": The World Bank...
...contemporary of England's Queen Elizabeth, but he never gave her a thought until his last legs were wobbly. Only thing that kept him from drinking his duchy dry and getting himself kicked out was his timidly pessimistic Counsellor, Schweinichen. But when the Duke, for a joke, tried to get his ugly wife to sit at the same table with his practically naked mistress, it was too much. The Duchess would not; the Duke slapped her; she went to the Holy Roman Emperor and told on him. So Duke Heinrich found himself deposed. Then began a picaresque and piggish...
...ride through the thick dark forests. Mrs. Kalinin took me with her, while the rest of the party went in a large sleigh. She had a spirited horse, but was an excellent driver although she succeeded in upsetting the sleigh twice, which I am satisfied she did as a joke...