Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro, Italian fruit-vendor, iceman, longshoreman, gasfitter, judge. Cornell undergraduate, streetcar conductor, carpenter, trombone-player (when demonstrating his ability he played ''How Dry I Am"). Once he was admitted to a speakeasy on the strength of being a Prohibition agent; the barkeeper thought it was a good joke till Izzy arrested him. When he had become a household word, a suspicious doorkeeper let him in immediately with ribald laughter when he announced who he was. The potency of his name swelled to such proportions that twice in one day barkeepers fainted (he says) when he introduced himself...
...week providing he be an exceptional good mechanic. If you bunch of ------s had any guts about you, face this organization in a face to face debate. How do you relish those apples? However says that what this great land of the free (Airbustors) need is a good joke. Harvard and the majority of the many institutions could be no better place to go for a selection as they all eater to some of the best jokes that wear pauts. Come on now if you have any guts and give us a reply you bunch of tin wash boards...
...debt of $292.10, huge Jess Willard, onetime heavyweight boxing champion, told a municipal referee that he was working for about $15 a week as a bouncer in a meat market he once owned. He had himself photographed ejecting a tiny newshawk. Later he confessed: "That's all a joke about my being a bouncer. There's nothing to bounce around here except pieces of meat. I'm manager here. . . . Can't tell you my salary but it's a lot more than $15 weekly. Why that wouldn't buy cigars." Democrat Melvin Alvah Traylor...
...good song." Last month Poet Christopher Morley revealed that what the President thought the country needed was a "great poem." Last week President Hoover had sent greetings to oldtime Funnymen Weber & Fields on their Golden Jubilee, telling them that what the country needed was "a resoundingly good new joke." ¶Roscoe Conkling Simmons. Chicago Negro who seconded the Hoover renomination in June, led to the White House 150 representatives of the "Republican Joint National Planning Committee to Get out the Negro Vote," spread them out on the south lawn. President Hoover appeared on the White House portico. "Oh, Mr. President...
Senator Hofstadter was the Republican chairman of the same investigating committee which, with the aid of Samuel Seabury, drove James John ("Jimmy") Walker out of the Mayor's office. The Tammany braves rocked with laughter. But the nomination was no joke. Boss Curry nodded his white little head and Tammany stamped its approval upon the man who had caused it its severest recent anguish...