Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This death notice in the Sheffield Star was a British joke, but it fitted the dubious, unenthusiastic mood with which many Britons greeted "Vesting Day," i.e., the day last week when the government formally took over the nation's 80 major steel companies...
...Yorkers heard the good news about their water supply than their attention was wrenched abruptly skywards. In three sections of the city, a local survey showed last week, soot was piling up twice as deep as it did in Pittsburgh in the days when Pittsburgh was a standard joke. One expert estimated that the annual fall of soot within a radius of 40 miles from New York City might be as high as 384,000 tons a year. And what disturbed New Yorkers most of all was a new test which showed they sucked in about 185,000 particles...
...Dwight might well groan. For the elaborate joke that makes the wheels go round in Philip Wylie's new novel is that there are no longer any men left in the world (as the women see it) and no more women left in the world (as the men see it). For each sex the other has suddenly disappeared, and the men & women of a world that somehow manages to be simultaneously manless and womanless are faced for the first time with the problem of how to live without each other...
...with a rather crude satire of the column, "Impressions of Parliament," a pleasantly flippant account of the Parliamentary proceedings of the week. The effect of giving the legislators such names as Mr. K. G. Skeemer, Mr. Upton AdamBoyse, Lord Elpus, and Earl Ebyrd is simply to crush whatever little joke is being hatched at that point. The vast humor opportunities of dealing really lightly with British governmental and social foibles are almost buried...
...revolutionary, but he was Tory to the core. His home life was as innocent as the average minister's, but he flayed the ministers, and the Bohemians claimed him as their own. In the 1920s, a word of praise from Mencken became a priceless treasure. When, as a joke, he suggested various politicians for the presidency, minor booms resulted. When he said some kind words about Henry Ford, they were quoted in the full-page ads that blared the arrival of the model...