Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rarely had the men of the NBC Symphony seen their little Maestro in such high humor and fine fettle. Pink-cheeked and glowing after his vacation in Italy, the terrible-tempered 81-year-old had kind words or a joke for everyone at rehearsal. The Maestro had his one inevitable flare-up of the day, this time over the absence without leave of a couple of trumpeters. The guest pianist watched the little tantrum, then, turning towards his wife and friends in the studio, wigwagged his eyebrows and giggled. For the soloist was a man who calls Toscanini "Maestro...
...smell of roast meat," the Darwinians decided that "the 39 articles were reduced to absurdity . . . Hell was abolished. Jehovah was exposed as an impostor whose real name was Jarvey . . . Talk of emptying the baby out with the bath! . . . Herod's massacre of the innocents was a joke in comparison...
When it was all over, the Hon. Sir David Smith, chancellor of the University of New Zealand, confessed to a vague feeling of disappointment: "Not a single joke! I rather prefer the way we do it in our British universities-more zest." Last week's inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president of 194-year-old Columbia University was as solemn as a funeral, as impressive as a coronation, and as carefully mapped as an invasion...
...first, when representatives of Chilean fishing companies began calling at the immigrant pen in Santiago's National Stadium to talk jobs with him, Edward Sienkiewicz thought it a big joke. Yes, it was true: he had told the interpreter that he knew about fishing-fishing was his hobby. But he had also told the interpreter that in his native Poland he was known as the grandnephew of famed Novelist Henryk (Quo Vadis?) Sienkiewicz, as a cello virtuoso and as an occasional conductor of the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra...
Looking back, it makes sense that Gibbs liked the book. Every now and then he goes off on a book or a play, liking it when nobody else can stomach a word of it, and it is usually a one-joke book or a one-joke play. A few years ago he liked a musical called "Park Avenue" which flopped. It was one long, dull joke about intermarriage and divorce in the Park Avenue set. But Gibbs raved about it, for what must be curious reasons. Whatever they are, those are the same reasons why he raved about "The Loved...