Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Little Jack Horner's Trick and Joke Shop in downtown Boston may fare better than the Combat Zone Smoke Shop and Laberty Tree Only half of the store's stock consists of paraphernalia. while the rest devoted to jokes, magic tricks, and Halloween masks Manager David Bertolino says he is optimistic that the new law will not hurt his store, and says most of his sales come from the trick and joke products Bertolino says he is not currently stocking up with any new smoking supplies. but sales of those items have been phenomenal customers are coming in and buying...
...would end the slump. "Nobody is actually starving," Hoover said. "The hobos, for example, are better fed than they have ever been." Other U.S. officials were equally astute. Said Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon in 1930: "I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism." (Joke of the day: Hoover asks Mellon, "Can you lend me a nickel to call a friend?" Mellon answers, "Here's a dime. Call all of them...
...group is successful, naturally. Hallelujah, except that Don, a nice, decent fellow, realizes queasily at the story's end that he faces an indeterminate future of biting the feathers off chickens. This is good comedy, but Don is so much more than a shadow figure in a joke that the reader wonders whether there may not be a novel in him somewhere, trying...
...later wrote that at the time "there was much feeling owing to the fact that one of our editors was largely responsible for the Lampoon's outrage, but this was also a decided crumb of comfort, and the joke was too good to leave any ill will." Forty years later, when a group of Lampoon grads reissued the parody and sent the White House a copy, Roosevelt replied, "I myself, still a freshman, had been elected an Editor of The Crimson two or three days before, and my rage at the hoax was only equalled by the rage...
John F. Seiberling, 63, Democratic Representative, on the changes in federal tax law that favor Big Business: "There's a joke going around Wall Street. It says that if your company is still paying taxes, you haven't read the new tax law. Well, it's a joke all right, but the joke is on the rest of the taxpayers...