Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only at week's end, after many a Briton had recoiled at this unseemly consanguineous attack on a man whose prestige was a crucial factor in the delicate situation in Cyprus, did the Foots admit that the whole thing was their notion of a harmless family joke...
...made known his quandary, he had no trouble hitting Page One. Last week, over-cutely swathed as The Complex Mummy Complex, Dr. Cooney's story got into TV as the Armstrong Theater's first comic dramatization-from-life. Stretched far too thin in an hourlong script, the joke was not nearly so funny as it must have seemed on paper or in real life. But it did make the 1,600-year-old hero the most popular mummy in Brooklyn. As callers swarmed on him, Dr. Cooney explained: "We still...
...York to study acting, and Paula remained to work in Cambridge. Last October, Joyce returned to Cambridge. "Things were pretty dull," Paula related. "One evening we were sitting around, trying to think of something different to do. The idea of starting a coffee house was first a joke, but the next thing we knew we were in the business. I guess you could say it has been a long joke...
...city of Evanston. Ill. (pop. 75,300) cared more deeply about the Orrington elementary school than Swedish-born Hjalmar Andersson. For 23 years as janitor, he kept the building clean and in good repair: no matter how much there was to do, he always had time to joke or chat with the pupils and listen to their troubles. But for all his good humor, Janitor Andersson is a stubborn man. Last week he was barred from the school he loves because of a rather odd and lonely crusade...
...most vicious anti-Eisenhower joke told during his Administration was circulating in Washington before the State of the Union message Thursday. It related how the President and his press secretary were playing golf when Hagerty went up to the foursome ahead of them and asked, "Would you mind if we played through? War has been declared...