Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reservations and waiting lists have become a joke in many places, simply because it is much easier to. sell to the "go-show" (airline lingo for the passenger without a reservation who takes a chance on getting aboard at the last minute in place of the "no-show") than to check a long waiting list by phone...
WASHINGTON --Sen. Theodore G. "The Man" Bilbo, (D.), Miss., isn't going to stand for defeat, even if "it's a joke, son," and he gets $500-a-week...
Ribald allusions to "Doctor de Kruif" (Bacteriologist de Kruif has a Ph.D., no M.D.) were a stock joke at the A.M.A. Convention last fortnight. Last week in the A.M.A. Journal Federal Narcotics Commissioner H. J. Anslinger viewed with alarm De Kruif's latest discovery: Demerol ("God's Own Medicine-1946," Reader's Digest for June), a painkilling drug which acts much like morphine but is not, said De Kruif, habit-forming...
...western frontier (described by Historian Carl Becker): "The lecture itself, if that is the word for it, seemed never 'prepared.' [It] was just informal, intimately conversational talk, always serious without ever being solemn; enlivened with humor . . . yet never falling to the level of the sad professorial joke. . . . No, lecture isn't the word . . . no musty air of academic infallibility clouding the room, no laying down of the law and gospel according to Turner; but . . . novel ideas carelessly thrown out with more questions asked than were answered, more problems posed than solved...
...outdoors. Tom was fitted with a five-strap leather harness, to keep his arms and legs from dangling. A couple of his cronies, invited in for the event, were asked to sing his favorite hymn, Life's Railway to Heaven. A minister said a prayer. Tom cracked a joke. Water trickled out of a tank; the trap was sprung...