Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scheme of a local real estate operator to put apartments or even factories on a platform over the Charles River basin seemed like a joke last year--at least like small enough a threat so that the City Council felt safe in voting its approval of the project...
...last year's bad joke has become enough of a threat to arouse widespread concern and organized opposition. The proprietor of the scheme claims that whether the platform is used for industry or apartments it will considerably strengthen the city's tax base by, in effect, adding taxable land to the map of Cambridge. At the same time the artificial peninsula would enliven the city's skyline, he says...
...newspaper Pravda is running a contest for the best political joke. First prize: 20 years...
Before leaving Washington for a tour of Williamsburg, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Miami, Frondizi hosted a dinner for Ike and Mamie at the Argentine embassy on Q Street. Noticing Ike chuckling to himself, Frondizi asked what the joke was about. Ike replied that he was thinking of the toast he was going to give: he had decided to say it in Spanish, he explained, even though he is a miserable linguist. At dinner's end, the President stood up, announced that he was about to display his best Kansan Spanish. Kansaned he: "Brindo por el Presidente...
...latest Russian joke going the rounds in London is the story of an inspector from the Moscow school system who drops into a classroom and asks the teacher: "Have you any exceptionally bright students...