Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently they found it was not a joke. Apologies were made and $17 was mailed quickly to the Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State; but this isolated incident still underlines shortcomings of last year's Combined Charities campaign. Nobody set up a standard to judge what were and what were not legitimate allocation requests. Hence the Drive workers were forced to spend time handling semi-political donations as well as performing their main charity function. Pressed for time, counters were unable to contact personally each donor who had an unusual request, and slipped...
From having made a very good joke of ballroom dancing, Grace and Paul Hartman have learned to make an even better joke of themselves. They can still execute demented fandangos. In one scene, she is a madly determined Carmen to his befuddled Don José. They are most consistently amusing as a trademarked stage couple, she babbling, he blundering, she all fizz, he all curdle. Beyond that, there is Grace's invincible likeableness...
...their predecessors in a long assembly line, both are profusely Technicolored illustrations of creative poverty in the midst of technical plenty. They also share backstage settings and a weakness for toying archly with the idea of unmarried pregnancy-a subject which Hollywood might be expected to regard as no joke...
...suffered its first parliamentary defeat: 283 to 257. One exuberant Tory borrowed an old Laborite victory cry. "We are the masters now," he yelled. On the government benches, Morrison flushed and fidgeted. Minister of National Insurance Edith Summerskill stared blankly into 'space. Only Clement Attlee saw the joke. Attlee threw back his head and roared with laughter. As the defeated Laborites filed from the House, the Tories shouted, "Resign, resign!", waved their handkerchiefs in farewell...
...ambush" tactics, declared he refused to regard the issue as one of sufficient weight. "We carry on," he told the House. Said Tory Winston Churchill: "May I express to the Prime Minister our thanks . . ." The Labor benches interrupted him with a roar of laughter. Churchill glanced up, saw the joke, then concluded: ". . . for [his] full and careful statement." The Laborites were still in power, but the taste of the future was an acid one. No one thought that another election could be put off beyond next fall...