Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That's a joke, son," quipped one of the editors of the Lampoon yesterday, and Kenny Delmar, better known to his kids as Senator Claghorn, burst into an uncontrollable spasm of gallus snapping. This worthy had come north from his New York publicity agent's office to accept the sheepskin of "Doctor of Lamphonery" in the Bow Direct aviary. Everybody thought it was a riot when it turned out to be a sheep, everybody but the sheep, that...
...atomic weapons by this country. Wishfully, he disregards or brands as communist rumors all statements by scientists that the Soviet has or can soon have similar weapons. This refusal to admit a fact invalidates his whole policy. Even on Burnham's amoral grounds, his plan is only a tragic joke...
...Fred's father, "a kind of homemade wit," had a little joke of his own. As a 14th-birthday present for Fred, he marched him down to the Boston Public Library, put him to work three hours a night as a stack boy-at 20? an hour...
...Civil Warrior with a mouth as big as the Mississippi's and a brain the size of a hominy grit. The Senator's development has been arrested in an artistic sense, too. After only six minutes on the air (four programs), his "That's a joke, son!" and "That is" were national bywords. Allen, who intended the Senator to have a far larger comic vocabulary, has been forced to give the public what it wants: plenty of nothing...
Nobody is ready to talk about what the watches read when the eight-oared shells finished their one and three-quarter mile stints, but one oarsman breathed yesterday that this spring made last year look like a joke...