Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other Presidents have shown widely varying recreational' tastes. Lincoln, Wilson and Truman were walkers. Coolidge pitched hay, golfed and rode a mechanical horse that became something of a national joke. Hoover fished and tossed medicine balls with members of the Cabinet and the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt and John Quincy Adams swam for their health. George Washington preferred riding. Jefferson detested all exercise, relaxed with his violin. Theodore Roosevelt, the most active President, was an enthusiastic wrestler, jujitsu expert, big-game hunter, tennist, horseman and boxer. One of his favorite forms of exercise was point-to-point hiking, which...
...medical student has long been the but of many a cliche-ridden joke. He is red-eyed and unshaven from study, they say, and he wreaks havoc with the curves in courses like Biology I and medical schools which forces him to spend long hours in grinding study...
...Shan't Need It. As the years passed, Marc repeated his "joke" again and again until some of his friends got bored with it. He even made arrangements with the undertaker for his burial in the family vault. The fish merchant took him for a ride on his lurching truck one day and tried to warn him: "Your soul will be eternally damned," but Marc only answered, "I must do what I must...
...friends with home-cooked meals worthy of a Parisian chef, and sent them home glowing with his fine vintages. Not even the postman was allowed to pass Marc's house on his rounds without sampling its hospitality. Most of Marc's friends tried to ignore his grim joke about suicide, but Marc would not let them. "By the way," he told his favorite fishing companion a few weeks ago, "I want you to have my fishing equipment. I'm killing myself at the end of this month, you know, and I shan't need...
...marooned party finally catch a boat, but the play distinctly misses it. The play fails less, perhaps, because its joke never really expands than because it never really effervesces; there is never that sudden overflow whereby a comedy of situation rips wildly into farce, or a comedy of manners lurches hilariously toward madness. The play remains part of a fashionable tradition which slices its amusement as paper-thin as its sandwiches, and-for success-demands a special type of flawless acting. In London, with Robert Morley, Joan Tetzel and David Tomlinson, The Little Hut presumably had it; but on Broadway...