Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Musica Antique. Star and principal lyricist for the current revue is a craggy-faced comic named Ronny Graham, a Broadway fugitive (New Faces of 1952) whose delivery is sometimes so shaggy that it is hard to tell which end of his joke is wagging. He mugs through an uproarious monologue on graduation day at a bop school, i.e., a baccalaureate sermon on how to puff marijuana cigarettes without wasting a whiff of those "leftwing Luckies." With poker-faced, evil-eyed Straight Man Gerry Matthews, 26, he delivers a to-the-point parody of TV Torquemada Mike Wallace. The cellar...
...Guthrie treatment did not mean giving the play a more modern look or a different philosophic spin. It meant reverting to a 19th century mode of acting and a Continental air of high twaddle-one moment for their value as drama, another for what is the outlines of a joke. Since the chief character in Capek's tale of a strange, century-old lawsuit is a grandiloquent opa singer, tasseled flimflam is never very difficult. Since the opera singer is curiously omniscient about the past and is forever flinging forth, with a veiled countenance, a Who-am-I?, there...
There are some indications that Roosevelt was not only remote, but was actually considered a queer youth. William Roscoe Thayer, a class behind T. R., could see none of the "charm that he developed later ...he was a good deal of a joke... active and enthusiastic and that was all." A contemporary Boston debutante noted that he was "studious, ambitious, eccentric--not the sort to appeal at first...
...Lampoon Fools' Week joke backfired yesterday when one fool was arrested and jailed on charges of assaulting and robbing a fake Santa Claus. The fool was released on $1,000 bail pending arraignment today in district court...
...undisclosed) and exchanged some gifts. This was enough to give London's gossipists a field day. They variously reported that Philip gave the Queen a piece of jewelry designed by himself, a big bouquet of white carnations, a gleaming electric kettle that puckishly seemed to combine a private joke with their "tin" anniversary. Parlaying the secrecy, London's Sunday Express knowingly surmised that the royal family was shocked and dismayed when Princess Margaret skipped out for a theater party, failed to appear at the palace festivities until just before they ground to a midnight halt...