Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mention of that man," says Hollon A. Farr, curator of the Memorabilia Room in Yale's Sterling Library, "only brings disgrace upon the name of Yale. In this day and age, almost anything can be discussed as a joke. Nothing is at all sacred...
...defense tax." And the Committee for Economic Development came out for a flat "defense profits tax" on top of a reduced corporate income tax plus increased excise taxes. Said C.E.D.: "The fact that excess profits taxation was an incentive to extravagant expenditure for travel and advertising was a national joke and a national scandal during the last...
...into a busy A & P on Main Street in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mr. John, who insists that every single item in the A & P carry a price mark, poked around looking for the tags and crayon marks. He told Manager William Smith (27 years with the A & P) a joke to put him at ease. "A fellow was stamping on prices," said John, "and I asked him how he was coming. Says he: 'Well, I got 500 cans of beans and found 700 termites. I'm having a hard time stamping the price on the necks of those...
...published photographs of Secretary of State Dean Acheson were giving his wife, visiting in Milwaukee, something to worry about: "When photographers come along they often find him just finishing a joke, even when he's with Vishinsky. I made the suggestion that perhaps he shouldn't be photographed laughing so much. So you can blame me if he looks too dignified and formal...
Basic dormitory regulations--as set down in a little purple manual referred to as the "joke book"--state that the Holy Cross upperclassman must be in for the night by 7:30 p.m. on weekdays, 11:45 p.m. on Saturdays, and 11 p.m. on Sundays. For freshmen these times are moved up approximately an hour. A monitoring system of corridor prefects checks up on obedience to these rules with more or less conscientiousness...