Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Operation Grab-Bag" was no joke. Its announced reason: to break up a Nazi smuggling ring. Unannounced reason: to break down a Russian veto...
George VI, King of Great Britain, is no Bing Crosby. But a long-standing joke around the palace, propagated by his horsy daughter Elizabeth, has been the King's bad luck on the track. Last week the joke had lost its point. "A most notable feature of the present racing season," reported the Times, "is the success of the King both as an owner and breeder...
Most sport writers played it for laughs. They quipped about Second Basemen's Local 307 and overtime pay for extra-inning games. But the idea of labor unions in baseball was catching. It was no joke for the Pittsburgh Pirates; over 90% of them seemed dead set on wearing a union label. Last week, after ten days of hemming & hawing, Pirate President Bill Benswanger bowed to the spirit of the times, agreed to negotiate with the players' union...
...special "Claghorn Days." He has attended conventions, not as Delmar, but as Claghorn. Book publishers hounded him to write an autobiography of the senator. Hollywood would begin production in July of a movie titled after the senator's best-loved and nationally overworked line: "It's a joke...
With a comedy personality that gets better from show to show, Actress Merman gets huffy, turns toughie, picks a laugh off a down-crashing joke at 100 yards. With a voice that seems trying to establish communication with Mars, she blares out, incomparably, a series of brisk Irving Berlin ditties (best: You Can't Get a Man with a Gun) and a couple of love songs...