Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris (Fox). The assumption of special characteristics belonging to special classes or races-characteristics which stay the same no matter what is happening-is the basic device of this picture as it is of half the good comedies in existence. Just as a Scotsman in a vaudeville joke must be a pinchpenny, so the two Frenchmen who follow a roughneck sailor to pay him the $1,000,000 he ha? won in a lottery are always polite. No matter how much of a hurry they are in they never forget to take their hats off to each other. This...
...Worse still, the Rumanian note was an echo (by request) of Statesman Stimson's reminder that Russia must not steal anything from anybody. Mr. Stimson had managed to get less than a half dozen of the 57 Kellogg Pact nations to send such reminders, but in Moscow the joke was wearing very thin...