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Word: joking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Especially difficult is the "short-short" story or play. Shopping and Waiting, by James Schuyler, the first of four plays given by the Poets' Theatre, is a five-minute piece that is scarcely more than an esoteric joke. A supernatural toy dealer mystifies tow earthly patrons with his clairvoyance; the scene closes when a predicted disaster comes true. The dull dialogue of Kenneth Donoghue, the dealer, and Jack Rogers, a customer in his second childhood, is enlivened only by the facile-clowning of Sonia Grant...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Four Plays on a Plain Stage | 3/26/1954 | See Source »

...Final Test. A British joke about cricket, well told; with Robert Morley (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...Final Test. A British joke about cricket, well told; with Robert Morley (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 15, 1954 | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...sports figures were included until 1943, when the rule was changed. Among the sports figures that Who's Who has listed: West Point's Football Coach Earl Blaik, Gene Tunney and Bobby Jones. In the 1952-53 edition Editor Sammons himself was dropped as an office joke perpetrated by his daughter, but he is back in the new edition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's Who's Who | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Final Test. A British joke about cricket, well told; with Robert Morley (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 8, 1954 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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