Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Running against Wallace as Lyndon Johnson's proxy in this week's Maryland presidential primary, Brewster called Wallace a "trespasser," a "stumble-bum," and "a dangerous joke." And as for bringing on trouble Wallace's name might as well have been Joe Btfsplk...
...impatience. "I'm sorry," he said. "I'm a little tired." His aides could wholeheartedly agree with that statement. Says one: "The pressure of the whole thing has really been getting him down. You know, he's always had a hot temper, and we used to joke about the day he'd punch some fresh jerk in the mouth. Let me tell you that in the past month or so it's ceased to be a joke...
...though he has been married four times. With his latest boy in tow, Charlie encounters an old cinemactress friend; she has a pretty girl companion, and such pairing off as occurs would come as no surprise to Rodgers and Hart. But for a baroque stylist like Stacton, the joke lies in the telling: at its best, Old Acquaintance is studded with aphorisms, lively with quips, and memorable as a kind of Continental September Song as it might have been written with book by Ludwig Bemelmans and added monologues by Oscar Wilde...
...varsity tennis team should continue its one-year-old tradition of making a joke out of the New England Inter-collegiate Championships when the tournament gets underway at Williams today...
According to Dunster Housemaster Alwin M. Pappenheimer '29, "this looks suspiciously like an inside job, like a not very good joke." Pappenheimer noted that whoever took the Straus Trophy showed no interest in other silver cups on open display in the dining hall. Presumably, a silver cups as well as silver samovars...