Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeply affronted, butted back at Sir Edmund with a 100,000 rupee ($20,000) libel and slander suit. Back home in New Zealand, where he is now planning an Antarctic expedition, part-time Beekeeper Hillary looked up from maps to chortle again: "I think it's a priceless joke. This chap will have to prove that Tenzing...
...month she had taken up with and been thrown over by another man. He begged to travel with her "like a brother." Apollinaria agreed, and vengefully parried all his advances. Years later, she described how the nightly sexual tragicomedy would end: "Fyodor Mikhailovich again turned everything into a joke and, as he was leaving me, said that it was humiliating for him to leave me like that (this was at 1 in the morning; I was lying undressed in bed). 'For Russians have never fallen back...
...kill the rabbit. "I think." he gasps, "that we are tangled up in a murder!" Half an hour later, they are digging him up for the second time. By this time. Harry is showing signs of wear, but Director Alfred Hitchcock is a man who understands that a good joke can't be kept down, and Harry does not rest in peace until he is ghouled for more giggles than he is really worth...
...each President handled the question of whether he would seek a second term: "The subject of Harry Truman's 1952 intentions came up again in his weekly press conference. The President wasn't saying, just acting deliberately mysterious. It has become an unprofitable inquiry and a stale joke." (July...
...playwriting, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? often badly slithers; and as satire, it is too often a mere family joke. More surprisingly, the sap in Playwright Axelrod's spoofing suddenly turns to syrup. Kidding the blonde siren at the start, Will Success offers a lowdown but lively Monroe Doctrine; championing the playwright at the end, it provides a weirdly solemn Declaration of Independence. (By this time, in Hollywood plays, integrity should be seen and not heard.) And in all the final putting things to rights, there is no trace of irony. If Hollywood filmed Faust, Faust might be expected...