Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general attitude, as a boatman rowed them to their waterlogged house in Windsor. Said twinkling Mr. More: "I've always wanted a holiday in Venice; now I know what it's like. At first the wife was fed up, but now she treats it like a joke." Said thin, worried-looking Mrs. More: "The truth is, we're getting used to disaster...
...After an elaborate practical joke. For Christmas 1885, Hearst sent each of his professors a gift-wrapped chamber pot with the recipient's picture on the inside bottom...
...Austrians were staying, that the management turned the lobby into a temporary warehouse. Flags flew in Brno. Pilsen begged the Austrians to visit its best hotel. And in two coal mines of Ostrava, miners promised to work two extra shifts digging coal for Austria. In hockey-happy Czechoslovakia the joke of the week was a cartoon showing a man carrying a bag overflowing with rare food. "Stop him," cries a woman. "He's a black marketeer." "Oh, no," comes the answer. "Just an Austrian...
Thereafter life was like new. Every day Obregon told him a new joke. He took him along when they went to fight down revolutions, and Genaro thanked God he was so short when bullets flew through the presidential train. On his last day in office, Obregon discovered he had got all this service free-Genaro was not on the palace payroll. He flipped Genaro a gold coin, promised: "When I come back I'll see that you get a home of your own." But he never came back. On the eve of his return to office he was assassinated...
From Blues to Khaki. Once it was a standing joke that Harrow men could get into Magdalen only if there weren't any Eton men on the waiting list. Now undergraduates come from all over, wearing the new uniform of corduroy trousers, Army shirts and "demob" jackets. It is no longer possible to tell a poet from, a Blue (a varsity athlete) by his dress...