Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Crash was a total surprise. No one knew what to do. It was almost a standing joke for businessmen to be jumping out of windows because of financial difficulties. In many places there wasn't such a thing as relief. There was no hope; just a feeling of despair...
...framework law' for Algeria is a joke-and a pretty grim one at that. To a people who complain of being under the thumb of three prefects from Paris, what do we do? We send them 15 more prefects. A lot of happiness we can expect from that...
...joke by one of Pignatari's chums, but Linda took the bait. She hurried back, made a luncheon date with Baby. But instead of keeping the date Baby threw a special kind of going-away party. At 2 p.m. a dozen hooting taxis began circling Linda's hotel. From each flapped a banner bearing the legend, "Go Home Linda." Tooting trumpets, 30 recruits from Rio's slums marched up waving more "Linda Go Home" signs. Then, from the windows of Baby's suite in an adjoining hotel came a hail of firecrackers...
...Germans, no matter what the rest of the world says, have a wonderful sense of humor-if only they were not so serious about it. This picture, adapted from the last novel published by the late Thomas Mann, is a classic instance of deutscher Witz: a good joke, badly told but brilliantly explained, heartily laughed at by the teller, laboriously retold from several other angles, and reduced, in conclusion, to its philosophic essence. In this case, unfortunately, the essence is a dull epigram. "Love the world," Mann's hero cries, "and the world will love you." The statement expresses...
...young Tom Swanson is doing his postwar Army turn at a quartermaster depot near Bordeaux, France. Militarily, the place is a joke. The company captain is a whisky-tippling, well-intentioned weakling who has never successfully crossed the no man's land that separates officers from enlisted men. When Master Sergeant Albert Callan, a World War II hero and an Army regular, is assigned to the company, the captain quickly melts into the background. The men get on the ball, and the sergeant, half hated, half respected, is insistently felt as a ruthless, unbending presence who is long...