Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane is often mockingly called "The Bureau of Missing Persons." The joke has some point. The world's biggest brokerage house has 89 partners. Its downtown Manhattan office is so big that back-row customers' men use binoculars to read the tiny stock-price figures on the automatic electric board. The overhead on this and 99 other offices across the U.S. is so big, laments Managing Partner Winthrop Hiram Smith, that "it costs us $70,000 a day just to open the doors." Last week, Merrill Lynch reported that not enough business came through...
...20th Century." Farouk's advisers are worried over the King's public flouting of the ancient command: "Thou shalt not usurp thy brother's betrothed." Even his sister Fawzia does not try to defend his action, but shrugs the story off with: "It must be a joke-he can't really mean it." By censoring the Egyptian press and holding the threat of expulsion over foreign correspondents, the Egyptian government for years has tried to conceal Farouk's way of life and other noxious matter lying beneath Cairo's glitter. The King, however, will...
From that point on, the joke is obvious. Here is no seal clumsily tooting a trumpet and waving a flag in a sawdust ring, but a seal suddenly released into a tank of water -lithe, graceful, confident and effortless. Subtly and with never a false move, Carol's whole expressive body flows with the rhythm of the music. As she sings, every motive in Lorelei's predacious little soul becomes hilariously clear. At the end of her first chorus, both Carol and Lorelei Lee belong to the audience forever. What Author Loos wrote between the lines and accented...
...somehow the joke was not quite so funny west of the Russian border. While Western comrades laughed at the scrupulous Briton and his decent human impulse, some of them also felt a little like crying. Many of them had joined the party in the '20s and '30s with the notion that they were making a better, more decent world only to find that the party was committed to indecent, inhuman calculation...
...introduction of the joke at the beginning of the movie is its funniest part. An atmosphere of disaster grips the small island of Todday in the Hebrides: old men stare blankly, seeing no future in their lives, young men walk glumly through the streets, and children huddle in dark corners. Why has life on Todday become so sad? Because on all the island there is no whiskey! The plight of Scotsmen without their whiskey is dragged out to its fullest...