Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medical joke: A man convalescing from a severe nose operation cried out to his nurse that he had to sneeze. "Go right ahead,'' said she, ''that shows you are getting better. It will be a great feather in my cap. "Very well," said the patient. "You just stand out of the way and I'll make?Kerchooo!?an Indian Chief...
...long, fat, wriggling rattlesnake in bright green, yellow & red, in 15 different poses. When Mr. Bungle saw it he shouted in half-inch letters: "A SNAKE!" He then fought and wrestled gruesomely with it through four cartoon panels before it was revealed to be a dummy snake, the practical joke of another character in the strip...
Only as the Prestes passed through New York en route to Washington did anyone crack a joke at their expense. Fog had delayed their ship seven hours. In his official speech of welcome Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, notorious for being late on all occasions, wisecracked: "I concede to you. Sir, the championship which heretofore has been bestowed on me." Hearing the Tammanyites guffaw, President-elect Prestes laughed politely, though he does not speak English. In Brazil, where public greetings are taken seriously and must embody the flower of courtesy, such a "joke" would have been an insult and President...
Perhaps the milk came from the President's goat that Jones wanted to get. Does W. W. J. stand for World's Worst Joke...
When accounts of the "You-Go-And-Fry" dinner were later read to the Senate by a playful Democrat, Vice President Curtis in his high chair grinned sheepishly, rubbed his hand over his red face. Mrs. Pratt said: "I'll admit the joke was on me." Secretary Davis, fresh from his Pennsylvania campaign for the Senate where he learned that a politician must be ready to praise anybody, dead or alive, on a moment's notice, felt his good nature had been imposed upon. The New York World spoke of a "sleazy kind of fawning" by public...