Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loved One" in the New Yorker last summer, I got hold of the book, clapped my hands for joy, and sat down for a good time. Now usually Waugh is excruciating and malevolent and vastly inventive. But not in "The Loved One." It is chiefly a one-joke book, and the joke isn't very good--it's about funeral parlor techniques--nor is its effect savage. So practically nothing of Waugh is there--little malevolence, less humor, and no inventiveness...
...only good things about this show." "Obviously," said Goldsmith, "that meant that Mission Oil was the only good buy." He so advised his customers, and two days later Mission Oil hit a new high. (Goldsmith also discovered tips in the Wall Street Journal's "Pepper and Salt" joke column...
Dr.William Frederick Koch pronounces his name to rhyme with joke. His patients have found very little to laugh at in his practice-which is bluntly described by the Journal of the American Medical Association as "Koch's cancer quackery"-though the families of his patients have often seen the point, too late. For years the federal Food & Drug Administration has had a suspicious eye on Dr. Koch. But last week he was still doing business at the same old stand: his "Koch Foundation," an old brownstone house on Detroit's East Jackson Street. And Dr. Koch...
...Betty and her square-jawed artlessness fit oddly into an atmosphere of languorous waltzes, yearning tziganes and dark, uncontrollable passions. Determined Lubitsch fans may find her presence there a satiric leg-pull in the Lubitsch tradition. Although Grable fans are less likely to enjoy this subtle kind of continental joke, they will at least see plenty of Betty. Caped in ermine (900 skins, $28,000) and daintily barefoot, or garbed in flossy period costumes, Betty is all over the place. She dances on the tabletop with the hussar in the skintight pants. She rides through a snowstorm. She sings...
...Sample joke: "I wonder why they always talk about a doctor practicing...