Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clad in a flowing sports shirt as sign of his membership in a classless revolution, Lopez Fresquet turned up at his office and ended the joke. "I'm dead serious about this tax," he said. The law will discourage "conspicuous consumption" and besides, might net $5,000,000 a year. Cuban society editors, who have always collected an under-the-table fee for social puffs, will lose a profitable racket...
...most Russians go to their mailbox or wait patiently in the midmorning kiosk queue for a copy of Pravda or Izvestia. Readers write the papers thousands of letters every week, usually complaining against some service or some minor bureaucrat. They have a private joke which has become a national truism: "In Pravda there is no information, in Izvestia there is no truth." At day's end, by long tradition, the reader hands his paper over to the neighbor on bathroom duty in the cooperative apartment house. Then, by almost unanimous agreement, Pravda and Izvestia come into their own: torn...
...everything is interesting for a while, just as the first dirty joke of the evening is engaging. But after a few hours, the range of vulgarity has been covered, and anything following becomes somewhat sickening, somewhat boorish...
Easy Living unfortunately never gets beyond the dirty joke stage. Steiner departs for America just as smut-ridden as when he left. The woman he almost came to love is, when the story ends, back in Paris where we first found her, still unloved. Only the location of the beds and the position of the players thereon have changed...
...Cracker. In Modesto, Calif., Filbert Brazil, weary of playing the nut of the joke, changed his name to Gilbert Brazil...