Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...table manners, your knife and fork system will seem strange to most Americans but not bad-mannered. You can make a joke of trying to learn the American cut and switch system...
Most readers got a big ha-ha out of the cartoon in which the doctor tells the little man he seems to be allergic to himself. Now, it appears, the joke is no laughing matter. Many unfortunates actually are allergic to themselves: i.e., to the chemicals such as sex hormones, insulin, adrenalin produced by their own bodies...
Austrians used to joke affectionately about their late, great, little Engelbert Dollfuss, saying that when he was worried he used to spend all night pacing up & down under his bed. If the stouthearted little Chancellor, murdered eleven years ago by the Nazis, had been alive last week, he would have paced up & down all night and every night...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue had its own grim little joke: it statistically proved that there really should be no shortage. In January of 1944, when there was none, 20,115,137,677 cigarets went on the domestic market. In January of this year, there was only .185% less, even though no one seemed to have got a full supply. These figures, civilian smokers complained acridly, blithely ignored the fact that the strain of war on the home front had turned them all into chain smokers...
...woke up 113 years, three months and eleven days later. At his bedside were a kindly, long-winded physician named Dr. Leete, and his lovely daughter Edith. At first Julian thought a cruel and elaborate practical joke was being played on him. But when Dr. Leete led him to the roof and showed him a transformed Boston, with miles of broad streets, tree-filled squares and majestic architecture unknown in 1887, he turned giddy...