Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Something of a hero, something of a joke in the country around Powell, Wyo. was huge, shaggy young Earl Durand, son of a respected rancher. From boyhood up, Earl talked about wanting to be a "true woodsman," a "Daniel Boone." He went to school through the eighth grade. Then, reaching a height of 6 ft. 2 in. and a bulk of 250 lb., all bone and brawn, he spent most of his time hunting and camping out in the Beartooth Mountains east of Yellowstone National Park...
...stockholders' meeting in Chicago, Chairman Sewell L. Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co., which does about 50% of the nation's plaster business, was asked about the entry of Celotex Corp. m the field (TIME, March 6). Said Chairman Avery: "Monopoly in the U. S. is a joke...
...suggestion contained in a letter to the Princetonian recently-raises a large problem. In recent years courses in marriage have come more and more to be taken seriously, and Harvard's Sociology Department will soon decide whether or not to give such a course here. No longer merely a joke, the question is worth straightforward consideration...
...prove he has a sense of humor, Minister Goebbels' newssheet, Der Angriff, thereupon began a joke contest. First prize...
...book which is as anecdotal as a Walter Winchell column. Whit Burnett discourses on the traditions of U. S. humor, jumps to an account of "Graebisch University," a joke institution which met at a Manhattan attorney's house for semi-scatologic and pedantic wisecracking; of moving Lewis Gannett's lake in Connecticut; the history of Story Magazine from its mimeographed inception (67 copies) in Vienna in 1931. He transcribes the cute sayings of his son David, letters from Saroyan, wisecracks about his appendectomy and tonsillectomy (even his surgeon was literary), hypochondria on two continents, occasionally throws...