Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Science. Between the farmer's wetted finger and the cloud-watching satellite lies the young and booming science of meteorology. A hundred years ago it hardly existed, and for another 50 years few people took it seriously. The "weatherman" was a popular joke, and his vague daily forecasts had little more prestige than the guesswork predictions in farmers' almanacs...
...apparently a joke," commented dorm president Sally Baker...
...quite fat, and she hates my bunny. She's always getting headaches and is quite a nuisance to have around. She always tells me to get out from under her feet when I'm not under her feet at all. My dad never laughs at a joke and is a nuisance to have around. So as I look at it there's no use for parents...
...Pearson on your comic page. He is so much funnier than all the rest. As to that series on Pearson now running in another famous publication [the Satevepost's "Confessions of an S.O.B."], it seems to me your esteemed contemporary misses the point. To paraphrase that old vaudeville joke-it isn't so much a question of who called that political prophet a so-and-so; the real point is who called that so-and-so a political prophet...
...from the American; the situation is so utterly crazy that much of the picture's charm is not in its guffaws but in its continuity; the screech of the language seems so utterly preposterous to the untrained ear that we suspect these Italians may be pulling a much bigger joke than we know. According to Casablanca gossip, both of the principals, Maria Fiore and Vincenzo Musolino, are acting professionally for the first time. If so, they could have fooled us. Their humor is broad and foreign, but not obscure...