Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outset, is also the name of a newspaper comic strip character who, for some unclear reason, comes to life to haunt his creator. The fact that Rumple is invisible to everybody else in the cast provides Irving Phillips' book with its main source of humor. Though scarcely original, the joke is still intermittently funny...
Judge Kawachi sought to establish motive. "Did you think Girard fired the shot at the woman in fun?" he asked Army Specialist Third Class Victor Nickel, who was with Girard when he fired. "Yes-for a joke," Nickel replied. Then the judge drew from a Japanese prosecution witness the testimony that Girard had at least shouted a warning ("Get outa here") to the woman before he fired, whereupon Girard weakened his own case and astonished the courtroom by denying it. "These discrepancies baffle me," said Judge Kawachi in a genial interim verdict at week...
...country minister's son, Georgia-born Erskine Caldwell never lived on Tobacco Road, but the road was close enough never to be a joke, dirty or otherwise, to him. He feels that this most celebrated of his books is as true to life in the backwashes of the rural South today as when he wrote it ("The rich are richer, the poor poorer"). Caldwell rarely reads. He argues that asking a writer if he has read any good books by other authors is "like asking a doctor if he's taken any good medicines lately." The father...
...Earth and The Boy and the Lady. Miss Montgomery creates an understandable human situation in her love affair in the well-titled Courage of the Earth, one which anticipates and leads to the inevitable climactic moment, only to be dragged down to the level of an inverted dirty joke by the last sentences ... "Then she did something the courage for which she hadn't imagined was in her. She kissed his cheeks and nose...
Four Bags Full (Franco London; Trans-Lux) of black-market pork are lugged across Nazi-held Paris by Jean Gabin and Comedian Bourvil in this delightful shaggy-dog story. That the French can now joke about the German occupation is not surprising. But the movie, winner of France's "best film" Victoire, explodes with humor, testifying that its makers never stopped laughing up their sleeves when they dared not guffaw outright...