Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observer in New York; and an unidentified partner who had been photographed in the nude with the duchess. The judge did not spare the duke, who, he said, admitted that he had shown "pornographic photographs" to "a mixed gathering in New York and seemed to treat it as a joke." Added the judge: "I do not commend his standard of taste and habits." Home with Harvey. Though Argyll had already discovered suspicious letters to his wife and a diary inscribed with "cryptic" signals, he "succumbed to her charms," as the court put it. Thus, the duke, said Judge Wheatley...
WHILE the baseball squad is leating Cornell at Kindlestick the Crimson tennis squad will be molishing Army. The match appear to be pretty much of a joke -- Harvard doing most of the chuck Nine lettermen, including the top men from the team that thrased Cadets 9-0 last year, again grace varsity roster...
...full-scale Scotland Yard investigation and brought Prime Minister Harold Macmillan scurrying back from his country home to London for consultation with his Cabinet. Nevertheless, Canon John Collins, C.N.D. chairman and preceptor of St. Paul's Cathedral, simpered on TV that most marchers "treated it rather as a joke." His merriment was not shared by James Cameron, a crusading journalist who has been a prominent figure in C.N.D. since its inception. Cameron conceded sadly that the ban-the-bomb marches had "become a vehicle for too many secondary and dubious intentions." Admitting belatedly that C.N.D. had been taken...
...social comedy in prewar literary London. When this book was written (in 1938), Powell had just abandoned a novelist's apprenticeship as an employee of a London publisher. What's Become of Waring is thus a young man's gibe against his job. But the joke wears well, though its first U.S. publication is obviously based on Powell's present status as the author of The Music of Time, the series of books (six to date) that comprises one of the major enterprises of contemporary fiction...
Mary of your readers thought that the front-page story on the Harvard Graduate School of Education's new tower was a bad joke, or a slur on the school, or both. True, the architect's sketch looked somewhat like the Timbuktu town hall or a crusaders' citadel along the Damacsus road, but the drawing was done by a respected Houston firm, which has planned a red brick veneer to harmonize with Cambridge style and sensibilities...