Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, a favorite joke in the West was that the people of Moscow had a clean, sumptuous, artistically constructed subway, admirable in every respect except one: there were no trains. Unlike many other jokes about Soviet Russia, this one contained no grain of truth. The Moscow subway trains run, and they run well...
...Time for Comedy. But the tight fix of Rank, who turns out 50% of all British films, is no joke to Britons. In the last twelve months, he has fired nearly 1,800 production workers (about 35% of his staff) and kept step with other British moviemakers by cutting the pay of most of those left by 10 to 20%. The drop in movie production was so sharp that Labor
...sureseater is a small "art" theater specializing in upperbrow films for upperbrow audiences. The word was originally used to suggest that every seat is sure to be filled. A skeptical Hollywood crack favors another interpretation: whenever you go, you are sure to get a seat. Last week the Hollywood joke rang hollow; having grown in a year from 226 to 270, U.S. sureseaters were booming. Symptoms...
...final speaker, for Yale, was Jim Britt, whose unctuous tones are familiar to those who follow the fortunes of Boston's baseball teams. He told a dirty joke, told a dreadful and moving story about Joe McCarthy, and split an infinitive or three...
...fevered ankle was ice cold and sound as a dollar. The trouble was that during his long wait on the shelf, Citation had developed a brood mare's belly, the neck of a bull and a rump like the back of a taxicab. Around the barn, the standing joke is that the "big horse" must have been eating from the same trough with Jake Hizar, the fat (264-lb.) foreman. To pare Citation down to racing weight, Ben Jones is giving him a double dose of work-one gallop at 6 a.m. and another an hour and a half...