Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There used to be a weed which was a pest and which would overrun lawns and pastures, etc. It was called "dogfennel." The favorite joke was that the way to get rid of dogfennel was to pour whiskey on it and the Baptists would...
...soon became "a part of the gay, foul pageant of the Muscovite demimonde." She endured with patience Menshikov's orgiastic embraces and downed her vodka with his roistering friends, glass for glass, without losing a shred of dignity. She could sit placidly through wild banquets where the big joke of the evening might be a string of boiled mice slyly hidden in the cabbage soup, a trick that made some of the revelers vomit on the floor-"which capped the joke though it made things slightly unsanitary for the guests who would later fall on the floor...
Instead of situations, the "Bag" relies on gags for its laughs and suffers as a result. Even the hilarious antics of Fred Allen cannot relieve the monotony of joke after joke with humorous touches few and far between...
Quinn wired Jeffers: "I am very happy to have tried to help. . . . But the . . . joke of the evening was written by [my] ration board...
Little has appeared in these columns about Harvard's Civil Affairs Training officers, formal name for the uniformed brass hats who joke in Japanese and swear in Japanese and even try to think in Japanese...