Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Undoubtedly, no malicious intent was meant by the publishers . . . However, good-humored as one can possibly be, everything has a saturation point, and mine is near at hand. It takes years to mold a good character, and usually one joke can't tear it down...
...James P. Callahan of the U.S. Air Force. "I don't remember giving anybody permission to capitalize on my capabilities as a flyer or my inability to know what to talk about at dinner parties . . . Your letter . . . has made my association with personnel of this squadron a standard joke...
...favorite form of amusement, before he got so busy trapping rascals, was the practical joke. Once, when a neighbor invited the Williamses to share a watermelon, Williams slipped over ahead of time, took the heart out of the melon, filled it with newspapers, and replaced the end section of rind. Top officials of the Treasury Department, staring at their newspapers as Williams announced his findings, have sometimes felt like the host at the watermelon party...
...hunch that the Republican attack on Stevenson's humor may backfire radically. "It is one of the glories of the American people that they have more of a sense of humor than most nations," he said. "They don't, like a man who can't take a joke, even if it's on himself...
...train near Bridgeport, Conn. Webster's most popular creation was fluttery, myopic Caspar Milquetoast, but he was nearly as well-known for his cartooned jibes at bridge and canasta fiends, radio & TV (for which he received a Peabody Award in 1950), wives who never understand a joke, and for his knowing, sometimes poignant recollections of a turn-of-the-century childhood...