Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only principal who seems to enjoy his role, apparently because he really believes in it, is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as a sniffly, red-nosed King Arthur. The rest of the clanking, top-heavy production has the hollow, dejected air of a joke with its punch line missing...
...through friends crossing the border in Herlin, although so far he has received American letters uncensored. He is a student who tutors grade-school science during off-hours in his small East Baltic town; he says any belief that the German people are capable of governing themselves is a "joke." The student, who refuses to allow his name to be published because of possible punishment by Russian occupation authorities, cites the Welmar Republic, under which "the German country, with her 65,000,000 inhabitants, was not able to find enough judges for a court of justice...
Regarding your story Monday about the student who was arrested for cracking a very old joke in public. The day after that, I chanced to overhear in the Bick two old Square cronies discussing the case. After being told about the incident, one man said "Which cop was it, you say? Delaney? Hmm, I thought so. Just like...
While the student in this case was arrested for making an insulting joke ("Does your father work? No. he's a cop.") which, according to the officer, drew a crowd in the Square, it seems to me that the citizenry have been most insulted. If that old chestnut can draw a crowd, the future of our race is indeed black...
Hill refused to make any statement last night, but witnesses alleged that he and a friend had cracked the old joke, "no my father doesn't work for a living--he's cop," in front of an officer in the lobby of the theater...