Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Josef Klesnil, pilot of the plane from Brno, had flown 17 minutes on his northeasterly course when copilot and radioman pulled pistols on him. They ordered him to turn southwest. "Don't joke," said Klesnil. "If you go against our wishes," said the mutineers, "we'll blow your brains out." For more than an hour, with pistols at his head, the captain flew southwest, beyond the Czech border to Munich, in the U.S. zone of Germany...
...Communist world has not yet plumbed the leading New Bolshevik, it has, at least, an impression of him-an ominous impression. Western diplomats at Kremlin dinners have been struck by Malenkov's grim reserve and aloofness. Stalin, in the brief days of East-West banqueting, cracked a joke now & then, and Molotov sometimes unbent with vodka, but Number 2½ remained stiff and oddly repellent...
Members of the club who saw the culprits walk out with "Bottom Fishing" for some strange reason thought it was a joke...
...Times Two. In Atlantic City, at a meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Dr. Frederick C. Redlich, commenting on experiments he and two colleagues had conducted with 83 subjects and 36 cartoons, said that any man who laughs loudly at a mother-in-law joke probably does not like his mother...
Every confirmed Godfrey fan knows that from one moment to the next he may erupt into ribaldry, beery pathos or waspish exasperation. When a joke lays an egg, he will pettishly blame his writers. And he reacts sharply to criticism: hearing that William Paley thought the Godfrey TV show "lacked movement," Arthur brought on a line of hula dancers and leered into the TV camera: "Is that enough movement for you, Bill...