Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worth celebrating. This reminds us of an incident which occurred some years ago on ship-board. It was the Fourth of July and a young Englishman found it most amusing to tell his American acquaintances that "in England we call it 'Thanks-giving.'" He kept repeating his joke until an American girl remarked that she had always supposed the British called it Christmas. The Englishman wanted to know...
...Reverend George B. Shaw. You can deceive people some of the time, but they ultimately discover your true vocation . . . What if the central figure [in a play] is a man of wealth and very old? And . . . people gather around to advise him what to do with his money? The joke will of course be, that there is no such thing as a wealthy person nowadays...
...open, Congressman Rankin is going to have relatively smooth sailing. Most Senators or Representatives would rather spit on Old Glory than be caught in the act of voting against the Veteran, even if they know that the Rankin plan would make the federal budget a grotesque joke. On Tuesday, for example, the House voted twice to chop the enacting clause out of the pension bill--which would have squelched it--but when Rankin demanded a roll call vote, the opposition vanished as if by magic. The enacting clause was left...
...first glance, the investment circular looked like a joke. "Amazing sale!" it said. "Up to 60% off original prices." But Manhattan's First Colony Corp.'s circular was no gag. It was simply an eye-catching way, usually frowned on by Wall Street, to get the public interested in buying stocks selling at far less than their book value. Said First Colony President J. G. Sittig: "The market needs a shot...
Publisher Bennett Cerf, columnist and joke-anthologist, bemoaned the creative life: "It's a good thing for a publisher to turn author once in a while. He learns how easy it is to feel hurt. On publication day he looks at the papers and finds his book mentioned only among Books Published Today . . . Even his friends don't know what day this is. Life outside is actually going on as usual. It is very hard to take...