Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joke, three girl friends of Stenographer Mildred Vanecek, 21, wrote her name in on the ballot for Justice of the Peace at Council Bluffs, Iowa. There was no other candidate. Stenographer Vanecek became the first woman justice in County history...
...German Regent." In Bavaria, where monarchist heads are hottest, the populace already hail 63-year-old Rupprecht of Wittlesbach as "Your Majesty'' and will certainly insist that he be made Regent of BaVaria if a Hohenzollern becomes German Regent. Rupprecht, a good fellow despite his stern exterior, used to joke at continued Bavarian loyalty to himself when the Republic was first proclaimed. Cheered to the echo at Munich, he shouted jovially at the crowd "Fine republicans you are!'' Nowadays, as his twinkling Mercedes carries him about Bavaria, Rupprecht accepts with dignified nods and bows the homage of his "subjects." Beside...
Brown, fresh from beating Yale, rattled off two long touchdown marches against Harvard, 14 to 0, caused Providence journalists to dig up a joke they had not used since 1926, about the old brown juggernaut...
Dangerous Corner (by John Boynton Priestley; Harry Moses, producer) reminds the spectator of the old joke in which a Southern planter, returning home, is first informed that his dog Towser has died. By a slow process of revelation he subsequently learns that his stables, house and mother-in-law have been burned up, his wife run away with a drummer. Author Priestley's play presents the most complicated plot in town. A loves B who loves C who loves D, who has been found dead. Little by little, each member of the cast is forced to reveal what...
...students with the elements of an education with which to fashion life. But with the Cadets comes a romance more real, more vital, than the round of artificial pleasures offered by the Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose, a promise of a definite future, which makes the academic student, preparing himself for a dim and uncertain path, wonder...