Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They break into houses at random, demand "passes" (all Negroes must carry passes to prove they are employed by whites), and turn the houses upside down, looking for liquor. The armed police go in constant danger of their lives. A white policeman's wife writes: "It is no joke to lie awake at night and wonder if one's husband will come back safely in the morning." Of all whites, the police are most hated by the blacks. Next come the Pass Office officials, then the state-employed railwaymen. These are the whites with whom the blacks come...
While the chaplain puzzles out his last words of comfort to Baranowski, he feels prickles of remorse tingling in the moral numbness around him. A cell guard speaks to the condemned man in kindly words, a clerk smothers an obscene joke, finally the lieutenant in charge of the firing squad offers to disobey his orders. The result, the chaplain sadly reminds him, would be the same: a more inhumane officer would take his place. "Do evil in order to avoid greater evil, is that what you're getting at?" asks the lieutenant. "Are we any better than the Kartuschkes...
...Republican candidate," said the bitterly isolationist Tribune, "Eisenhower would be a joke. He was one of the coterie owing his advancement to George C. Marshall when the latter was Mr. Roosevelt's Army chief of staff . . . For Roosevelt and Marshall to install Eisenhower as Supreme Commander in Europe necessitated jumping him over 366 officers who ranked him. Eisenhower achieved his advancement through New Deal patronage, and he is not likely to forget it... Eisenhower was picked up by the extremely wealthy internationalists comprising the board of trustees of Columbia University and was named president of Columbia. But Truman kept...
...produced for any other purpose than to make money, this other purpose would have to have been the complete degradation of not only sororities and fraternities, but of the entire American university system. To the college student, the rotten insinuations and ideals presented by this movie are simply a joke, but strangely enough, the American public is always inclined to believe the things that they see on the screen at the neighborhood theatre...
...Shrimp Girl, is missing from the show, but a gently smiling Mrs. Salter and the portrait of Hogarth's niece, Mary Lewis, have much of the same spontaneous, light-brushed charm. In his self-portrait, The Painter and His Pug, Hogarth seems to have made a gentle joke at his own expense, played up the resemblance between...