Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cool, white Malacanan palace, Philippine President Manuel Roxas found that story no joke. Last week, he had been forced to make an extraordinary request of his Congress for a special court to deal exclusively with the graft of public officials...
...inflation of six months ago has been curbed by drastic Russian measures. The street-corner financiers with their briefcases full of dollars and the peddlers who sold Leicas, slightly used countesses and pearl-handled revolvers are in hiding. The possession of U.S. dollars is now a death offense. The joke to match: Q. "What are they giving for the dollar these days?" A. "Sixty." Q. "Forints?" A. "No, years...
...seldom replied, but [one said] to a very bold-looking girl . . . with a great flag pinned and hanging over her shoulders and over her bosom: 'Look here, Miss, you'd better take that flag off! . These old rebs are hell on breastworks.' Not a very refined joke, but the woman brought it upon herself. . . . General Kemper and myself were much amused...
...sings highbrow and unhackneyed programs of almost equal density in Winnipeg, Saginaw and Manhattan, and finds that audiences like them equally well in all three places. Says she: "I thought Kalamazoo was a joke. Then all of a sudden, I get an engagement for Kalamazoo. I don't go down to them. I give them everything I have in myself. In Kalamazoo is a wonderful audience...
Hiccups are no joke when you have been hiccuping for two months-as Anna Mayer had. Shrunk to a starved 82 pounds, she lay convulsed with racking spasms, 60 to the minute. Desperate measures were called for. The surgeon cut into her neck above the collarbone, snipped off an inch and a half of the right phrenic nerve. Like a disconnected electric vibrator, her convulsions slowed, stopped. "When do I eat?" she asked feebly...