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