Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Hill and re-routing the main-line railroad tracks. Wrote Doyle and Quinn: "We are forced to omit little details [because] our engineering consultant is sweating out a Red Sox fight in the American League and has no time for trifles." The "Doyle-Quinn" plan became a standing joke in Providence, but the New Haven thought such a plan no joke. Recently, the local Rotary Club was told that the railroad was thinking of making a change. Last week, the board of the New Haven Railroad approved a plan for relocating Union Station just as Reporters Doyle and Quinn...
...Brandy for the Parson, something went wrong. I'm still not sure what it was, but a picture that started with plot possibilities that looked as bright as (and quite similar to) those of Tight Little Island should not have begun to limp pathetically along on one joke before the first hour was up. The fault did not lie with the actors; they were newcomers to the game of British Comedy but they performed well and provided a refreshing change from the standard menagerie of J. Arthur Rank eccentrics...
...this. Now & then, in conversations with friends, jocular suggestions had previously been made to me about a possible political career. My reaction was always instant repudiation, but to have the President suddenly throw this broadside into me left me no recourse except to treat it as a very splendid joke, which I hoped it was. I laughed heartily and said: "Mr. President, I don't know who will be your opponent for the presidency, but it will not be I." There was no doubt about my seriousness. -Dwight Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe
There are lively touches, even funny moments, at the expense of both Italian films and American film stars. Actress Hagen can turn amusingly soulful or shrewish or primitive; what she fails to do is create a solid characterization. And the satire is the merest slapstick, the joke is never varied, the fun never sustained. In Any Language is a johnny-one-note scored for a very large brass band...
...Take That Back." Private Reed was shipped to Japan with the 40th Infantry Division, and he began to joke about being shipped to Korea, much as he had joked about being drafted. But in January 1952, when his division was sent to Korea, Reed realized that he was in for something more than a newspaper assignment. As a combat correspondent, he not only quickly found himself under fire, but for a month got cut off entirely from the Post. The censors, who had no precedent to go by, stopped his mailed columns, and the Army took a dim view...