Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herald, prints a scathing etching; Paul Banks reviews the drama, Storm Jameson, novels. From a "Western Newspaper Man" Editor Orage has received and amazingly printed a scurrilous parody of the 23rd Psalm which has for many months circulated in the U. S. from hand to hand like a dirty joke: "Hoover is my Shepherd. I am in want...
...material for blood & thunder romance in the style of Rafael Sabatini. It is a well directed and adequately authentic picture, damaged mainly by prolixity of plot and by reverberations of George Bancroft's guffaw. His laughter is of a sort to suggest that he has just heard a joke which he does not understand...
...Would be have his name entered? The Duke of Peterborough, Lord Lounsbury, Earl of Ludgate, Lord Gray of Shasta and Mount Hellicon, The Vagabond. No he thought not. He was rather sure not. No, he really didn't need or require a straight grained pipe. It was all a joke, a hideous, ill-timed joke. Show him anything, give him anything. Half England was staring at him and he wanted to be alone...
...This joke the House of Commons received at first in dead silence. Suddenly, after a lapse of perhaps 45 seconds, the Englishmen, Scotsmen and Welshmen present saw the joke and roared. Chancellor Chamberlain, his stern features relaxing in a smile of pleasure, got down to business...
...limousine and the crowd on the sidewalk turns the incident into a song-"Madame Has Lost Her Dress." The song runs through the rest of the picture and helps to give it the light-hearted mood necessary to make an old plot seem fresh and more than one old joke seem funny...