Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joke or no, Ralph Flanders made no such mistake last week. Result: he carried the farm as well as the city vote (with C.I.O. backing), swept to easy victory over Lawyer Sterry R. Waterman (30,878 to 24,823). This made him almost certain to go to the Senate as the successor to able, scholarly Warren R. Austin, who resigned to become permanent U.S. member of the U.N. Security Council...
...concertos on one program started as a gag last winter between Arrau and Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, who directed the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra for the concert last week. At intermission, Arrau gulped down gobs of milk, afterwards wolfed a big steak. Said he: "It turned out not just a joke." This week, after hopping up to the Berkshires for a concert at Tanglewood, and to Manhattan for a Lewisohn Stadium appearance, he will take his first vacation in five years...
...line during the war, and had won a respect in the armed services that they had never had before. Veteran correspondents were not the ones who brazenly toted cases of liquor aboard, made the lives of Negro stewards miserable; got off the dirty-joke ship "news" paper which must have startled Russia's silent correspondent A. M. Khoklov, a captain in the Soviet navy. Baldwin's recommendation: a permanent accreditation committee of newsmen, to weed out the unfit...
...about who might be listening. It was something new to hear Government officials criticized by ordinary individuals, to go from city to city over huge distances without being stopped for passes and answering endless questions. American talk of food and goods shortages struck her as some kind of elaborate joke. She was buying now for Moscow, everything from a radio-phonograph to progressively larger-size clothes for the baby...
Turning his discussion back to recent times, Salvemini declared that "the Atlantic Charter, which should have given a lead to the present peace negotiations, was a joke put together by Roosevelt and Churchill when they needed to deceive people all over the world to support the anti-German war eeffort. Now that Germany is defeated, nobody needs to take seriously the Atlantic Charter, or any other charter...