Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slouch. At 17 Bertie was dubbed Knight of the Garter, and established in his own "household." His equerries were instructed never to permit "lounging ways, such [as] lolling in armchairs" or "slouching ... with hands in the pocket." All "satirical or bantering expressions" were taboo, and "a practical joke was never to be permitted." Bertie's leisure was to be spent "looking over drawings or engravings." On reading this memorandum, the Knight of the Garter burst into tears...
...Joke on Tame Cats. The theme of Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is fraud leavened with a little Freud. In particular, it is the kind of fraud practiced by the English, who cling to the belief that if something awkward is ignored, it will go away. Gerald Middleton, handsome, sixtyish and a kind of historian emeritus among English medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin...
...cent of the maximum permissible dose. Dr. Lapp pleads for criticism of his conclusions and I am sure we all hope that he is mistaken. If he is right, there is no sane choice but to stop the testing of large atomic weapons immediately. Strontium 90 is no joke--if the tests are continued much longer it could cause many millions to die of bone cancer...
...campaign's biggest joke to date: Kefauver's asking what would happen to the country if Nixon became President...
...That was meant as a joke. He invited me out to lunch after I said that...