Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the joke was out. Hugo N. Frye was even less than a memory; he was nothing more than a fabrication of the imaginations of Editors Horn and Blummer...
...period of falsification had been long enough to give U. S. citizens and Englishmen the impression that Mrs. Sarojini ("Death or Victory") Naidu is a particularly funny female joke. Naturally there is a sense in which scrawny St. Gandhi and his whole topsy turvy nonviolent struggle is history's most colossal and perhaps most dangerous jest...
...Arizona's Senator Ashurst charged that the Administration was trying to barter judgeships for Parker votes, named Washington's Senator Dill as the recipient of such an offer. Senator Dill explained that a private friend had said something about a judgeship but that he (Dill) considered it only a joke. California's Senator Johnson rattled off a speech against confirmation at such high speed that the galleries heard only a blur of sound. Idaho's Sena- tor Borah was in the middle of a long, involved sentence when he was cut short by the Vice President's gavel calling...
...seldom resides except during Seville's famed "Easter Week," an occasion of surpassing splendor. Indeed the squirt-bench had not been used until last week since Edward of Wales visited Seville (TIME, May 30, 1927). The long intervals between the times King Alfonso plays his favorite prac- tical joke keep other Royalties comparatively ignorant that the squirt-bench exists. Ignorant last week was Prince Aymon Robert Marguerite Marie Joseph Turin, Duke of Spoleto, 30, reputed suitor to the Infanta Beatriz...
...Joke In Manhattan, C. V. Lacmas amused himself by holding a round table-top in front of his poodle, whom he had trained to jump through paper hoops...