Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German women tack their husbands' titles on to their own names. A classic German joke tells of the woman who called herself Frau Hatchet-Murderer Müller...
...weapons, and knows how to use them. She can print what she does about Hollywood people because she knows still fancier stuff that the mails would not carry, and because her own private life is blackmail-proof. And she knows how to turn her most outrageous mistakes into a joke. To one "planter's" hurt question why she had reduced his exclusive scoop to one line, low in her column (it was one of her mistakes), she crowed: "Bitchery, baby, pure bitchery!" Hedda delights, in fact, in calling herself The Bitch of the World...
...sounded like a cruel joke. This week, the New York Times reported that during the past six months about 80 tons of food parcels had been shipped to the U.S. from one of the world's hungriest countries, Greece. The parcels contained olive oil, salami, cheese, figs. At the very time the U.S. prepared to give Greece major economic help, the shipments had risen to a peak of 16,000 parcels a week...
...revered (and sometimes worshiped) Gandhi, could understand him when he cried for their freedom; they could not always understand him when he told them they must not use violence to win that freedom. "To inculcate perfect discipline and nonviolence among 400,000,000," he once said, "is no joke...
They don't really believe that, and that's why it's a good joke to them. They know that in 1947, as in 1937, they have more clothes and food and freedom than their Russian neighbors. They know that if they can continue to go at their own sturdy gait, 1952 will see them still relatively better off than the average Russian...