Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joke in Paris was that Charles de Gaulle did not know bifteck prices were going up until his wife, Tante Yvonne, told him. Wherever De Gaulle got the news about French inflation, he moved swiftly last week to bring it under control...
...actually been a figure in the nightclub woodwork for some time but is now crawling toward recognition. He is a Canadian and a throwback to the era of the stand-up comedian, the school that thought a comic was a gagman, not an actor, and any joke that couldn't be told in one breath couldn't be funny. Kahane sprays his BBs in all directions. "In kindergarten, my kid flunked clay ... I love children, I went to school with them . . . Our dog is adopted. My wife and I couldn't have one . . My brother...
...Bishop Gooden-always ready with a pertinent joke-tells us that not long after the death of King George VI of England, when a Roman Catholic priest said to an Anglican priest. "I am sorry the head of your church died," the Anglican priest replied. "Yes. and on the third day He rose again...
...theological writings-The Gospel and the Catholic Church, The Resurrection of Christ, The Glory of God and the Transfiguration of Christ-earned him applause in churchly reviews and a promotion to Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. Then 45, he already looked so venerable that his students used to joke about old ladies helping him to cross streets and climb stairs. A High Churchman, Ramsey was chosen to be Bishop of Durham in 1952; he was well liked by the clergy of this ancient diocese, but one layman who recalls his sermons there admits that "he wasn't always...
...Saigon cocktail parties, Army Boss General Hinh used to threaten a coup almost daily and joke that when he overthrew the government he would exile every member of Diem's family except Mme. Nhu, whom, he said, he would keep as a concubine. One day Mme. Nhu finally met Hinh face to face at a party. She walked over to him, recalls an observer, and said: "You are never going to overthrow this government because you don't have the guts. And if you do overthrow it, you will never have me because I will claw your throat out first...