Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cronies guffawed, and Libonati broke into a broad grin at the joke. That was last August, and he well knew that when the Democratic ward bosses of Chicago's seamy, machine-run Seventh Congressional District tabbed him as their man, he was as good as elected...
Great laughter like he didn't get the joke. He waggles his head as Gromyko whispers into his ear; then still grinning, at me he turns to shake hands with some exotically garbed potentate. The crush around me lessens. The press ignores me. Me and Khrushchev's talk is over...
Repeating over and over the same joke -it can hardly be termed satire-Nude With Violin can scarcely help growing wearisome. What is worse, the play is at no point notably gay. Actor Coward is by all odds Playwright Coward's greatest asset; and as a special gentleman's gentleman-or rascal's rascal-he is perfectly placed for the goofy badinage, studied insolences, posh billingsgate and pecks that leave tooth marks which are Coward's forte. And when, sporting a New Look, he is very suavely going through all the old motions...
Other seasons that are now open are those for snoeshow hare, cottontail rabbit, jackrabbit, oppossum, raccoon, and black bear. Locals think the bear season a joke of the Division of Fisheries and Game; but, in any case, bears are very scarce, as are oppossum and raccoon. Rabbits, needless to say, are not scarce...
...city-room wit as Sputnik 11 hove into the headlines: "It's the first time a dog story made eight-column streamers on every front page in the country." The press gave full coverage to the challenging aspects of the Russian feat. But, in a spree of Muttnik jokes and doggerel, wry puns and photographic gags, it also served up laughter to a nation big enough to chuckle over a joke on itself...