Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shaw merely an iconoclastic critic of humanity's failings who exaggerated for the sake of sensation? Not according to him: like Lear's Fool, he meant every word he said. "The real joke," he once remarked, "is that 1 am in earnest...
...then Fatima tries to draw some human warmth out of Jinnah, who completely lacks a sense of humor. During a trip in the Governor General's personal plane, Jinnah essayed a joke with his fellow passengers, forgot the point, mumbled to a stop. "You didn't finish," chided sister Fatima...
Cracked Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker, whose social world, café society, is a cut below the Social Register's: "The joke of the whole thing . . . is that the Social Register has no more right to the vestige of authority it has assumed than our Chinese laundryman...
Before U.N., at many an inter-American conference and in dozens of crises, the quick-witted Brazilian had engineered the compromises that held the hemisphere together. He always knew how to break an impasse with a joke and he could drop a tear at the twist of a metaphor...
...movie adaptation, may have tried hard to keep his tongue in his cheek, but it's a safe bet that he also ground it between his molars. Ronald Reagan, none too shrewdly cast, plays, of necessity, as if he were trying to tone down an off-color joke for a child of eight. Eleanor Parker's imitation of Margaret Sullavan, the Broadway original, is painfully scrupulous, from the hair on out. But it is hard to believe that Sergeant Reagan could long endure the retarded maiden she portrays, much less find her cute. However, it is likely that...