Search Details

Word: joking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...then got a scholarship at Bryn Mawr to write her M.A. At that time there was no one teaching in her field and no one knew much about it, so she had the run of the graduate school. "The whole thing was such a lovely joke," she recalls. "It didn't matter if I were dropped." She stayed on, and after getting her degree returned to England for a busy teaching and research life at Holloway College near London. When not teaching, or attending a class at the London School of Economics, she spent her time in the Records Office...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: The First Lady | 3/5/1954 | See Source »

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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...similar piece. Huge oak beams form a ceiling of gothic arches, and the sun streams diagonally through leaded windows flecked with remnants of ancient stained glass. The building's Cambridge debut caused no little comment from local journalists. Most outspoken was the Evening Transcript, which called it an "architectural joke...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Flemish Birdhouse | 2/20/1954 | See Source »

Peter N. Stearns '57, chairman of the election committee, advised about the Balzotti joke, last night called a compulsory meeting of all "serious" nominees and demanded a display of bursar's cards for entrance to the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Foils Jubilee Nomination Prank | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...rear engine the butt of many a joke. Sample: First American, looking under the hood of his stalled Volkswagen: "No wonder it won't run. I must have lost my engine." Second American, approaching from his own Volkswagen: "Don't worry; you're lucky. I just looked in the trunk compartment, and they've given me a spare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Comeback in the West | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Previous | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | Next