Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Eliot has just been made the subject of a very undignified practical joke by some unknown person. Engraved cards of invitation to his house for today were sent out in his name. The style of the cards is unlike any he ever had, and the date is written in ink. In addition to this an advertisement stating that he desired to engage a servant girl was inserted in several Boston papers. The result of this is that he had forty or fifty applicants. He sent to the Boston newspapers on Saturday the following statement: President Eliot desires to have...
While homage was thick in London, Paris burbled over Picasso's latest joke. Sitting as usual in the evening at the Café de Flore with a chic woman, the forelocked Spaniard who has the Midas touch was joined by three picture dealers, then by three more. He picked up an empty cigaret package, cryptically manipulated it under the table, finally brought out a little figurine of a dancer with the remark: "Well, there's the latest Picasso." Amid a chorus of admiring compliments, artist and girl friend departed. The six picture dealers were just on the point...
Although McNamara bitterly denounced the "adolescent intelligence of the students" and stressed the "seriousness of the Council's proposal" for a separate Harvard municipality, his speech was apparently taken as a joke by the packed galleries. "He just wants to get his picture in the American," said...
...perennial joke of "next May, for example" no longer applies to the Freshman Advisers, and graduates and upperclassmen look to these new men and their new chief to vindicate Dean Leighton's theories and repair this very loose cog in the machinery of the University...
...free from having to think of something to be. Vag experienced slight nausea at his own nostalgia, and his thoughts swung to what courses he might sit in on this year. There was always Merriman's first lecture, a phenomenon in itself. There would be Holcombe's joke about 99 and 44-100% pure, or Demos telling about the Sophists, or some officer of the University declaring that concentration was comparable to marriage. It would all be there for another year, but after that...