Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respect Chancellor Snowden erred conspicuously last year, overestimated by £18,000,000 the revenue from estate duties. To this error (resulting from the fact that an unusually small number of rich men died during the year) Chancellor Chamberlain alluded by making the only joke in his budget speech. "I am reminded," said he stroking his mustache, "of that story concerning the Peninsular War, the story of the General who saw his troops hesitate to charge and encouraged them by exclaiming, 'You don't want to live forever...
Thus the brown tide is steadily rising, checked only by a coalition of all other German parties except the Nationalists and Communists. This major fact?the rising Fascist tide?President von Hindenburg's tremendous personal victory tended to obscure last week. In the 1930 Reichstag Election, Herr Hitler's "Joke Party" rose from ninth to second parliamentary rank (TIME, Sept. 12, 1930). On the basis of last week's presidential returns the Fascist Party is now first in Germany. It cannot, of course, assume first rank in parliament until there is another Reichstag Election?which President von Hindenburg and Chancellor...
...German Federation, power has been held since 1925 by Socialist Premier Dr. Otto Braun whose support today is based on a Socialist-Centre coalition in the Prussian Diet elected in 1928 (when the world had not heard of Adolf Hitler). In the Diet sit only six Fascists, the "Joke Bloc" elected in 1928. If on April 24 Prussia should go proportionately as Brown as the rest of Germany has gone, there would be elected 120 Fascist Deputies?thus making Adolf Hitler leader of the majority party in Prussia which comprises 60% of Germany...
...lover who was trying to punch her face. "All right, all right," said Miss Harris, "but when he came to my room he didn't talk about religion. ... He wanted to show me his appendicitis scar." This unveiling was prefaced by one of Dr. Davidson's favorite jokes. Miss Harris repeated it thus to the Court: "A girl and a Scotsman were sitting in the park opposite St. George's Hospital. The Scotsman said: 'I will show you where I had my appendicitis operation.' The girl replied, 'No don't show me here...
...months ago President Hoover asked Will Rogers to crack a joke which would stop hoarding...