Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What happened in the park-and again in the court of the palace where the fountain was, and the flowers . . . these were rich-they must never be trusted to treacherous paper-memory will do-I guess no one in the world who could appreciate a joke would be likely to forget them...
They have no feeling yet that the war is lost. But they sense uneasily that Pearl Harbor was a mistake. For that they blame the Germans, whom they have come to hate. A popular Tokyo joke tells how a Jap slapped a Bulgarian military attache. When he was informed that his victim was an "honorably ally," the Jap apologized: "So sorry, I thought he was a German." But this feeling against Germans is part of a greater hostility toward all whites. (There are still a few thousand white neutrals in Japan...
...lads will have taken another town and I will sit down with them and eat chow. They won't have a tree but while they're eating they'll be thinking of the tree in the living room back home. Some kid will make a joke and all the guys will laugh but it's not the kind of laugh they used to have when they were with their folks. And after chow they won't ask me to sing Jingle Bells or Ball Game. They'll ask for I'll Be Seeing...
...means original with Hitchcock, the McGuffin is a hoary British joke about a parcel-toting man on a train meeting another man, who inquires...
...smooth, smart advertising copywriters at Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. last week had their little annual joke on themselves and all other writers of smooth, smart department-store Christmas advertising. Macy's bought a six-column ad in the New York Times for a cartoon of a befuddled, determined male saying to a glamorous second-floor dummy: "I'm looking for the Renoir peignoir with the fabulous moonbeam bow." Underneath, Macy's printed "The Man's Glossary (revised 1944 edition) of Unfamiliar Words & Phrases-As Used by Advertising Writers to Describe Female Apparel...