Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know him are never in danger of mistaking his rank," said a friend; "and those who do know him are never reminded of it." In press and pulpit, he was an outspoken opponent of coeducation, woman suffrage, British rule in Ireland, divorce ("the modern attitude makes a joke of the sacrament of matrimony"), sexy and brutal movies. He once denied a murdered gangster a Christian burial...
Progressive ways like Lincoln's sent many a graduate on to other schools for the embarrassing discovery that he was short in such progressive nonessentials as spelling and long division. They also gave rise to many a joke, like the one about the boy who went home triumphantly with an "A in sandpile." But doctors, lawyers, professors, writers and middling prosperous intellectuals lined up to send their kids to Lincoln. As more & more of them paid out Lincoln's high (current top: $600 a year) tuition, Lincoln-like Horace Mann-settled down into its once-new ways...
...again the morning after-this time for Indonesia. The Ukraine's Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky started off mildly enough, charging on the basis of newspaper clippings that Britain was "endangering genuine national aspirations." Quipped Bevin: a newspaper has three functions: to amuse, to entertain, to mislead. The joke was ill-timed, and Vishinsky grimly pounced on it. The Briton had to listen while the totalitarian defended Britain's free press: "The fact that there is a free press in Britain entitles us to place some credence...
...street, gathering weeping children about them. Babies were born prematurely into a world their mothers thought was ending. Suicides were reported. Many listeners called the police or their parish priests. Few stayed near their radios long enough to hear the announcer say: "Wake up. It's a joke...
Next day the French Government, not at all amused, dismissed Claude Bourdet, new director general of French broadcasting. Also suspended was moonfaced Scriptwriter Jean Nocher, who complained: "I can't understand. I intentionally put all kinds of whoppers in it [so listeners would know it was a joke]. For instance, I made Catholics sing a Protestant hymn, Nearer, My God, to Thee...