Word: jokingness
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Kids today candidly talk about everything from puberty to homosexuality, but the actuality of free sex based on widespread use of contraceptives is nowhere near at hand. Some girls sleep with steady boy friends, circumspectly and not promiscuously. There are also the perennial pathetic girls who, as one boy explains...
CRIMSON editors are used to staying up all night--that is the way they get their paper out--but the very hour constitutes a special occasion for the theatre people and their exhiliration lends a curious atmosphere of bustle to the preparation of the morning edition. Editors scurry about with...
Above all, the campaign style brings home again the ex-Governor's Italian origins. He chatters in the language effortlessly, whether praising the bambinos of a young immigrant mother or joking lustily with a Sicilian metal-worker. This week, as he forayed the factory districts of Lawrence and Lowell, he...
One of the favorite colors of the Pre-Raphaelite painters was called Mummy Brown - and not out of joking affection. It was a warm pigment made from the bitumen used by ancient Egyptians to embalm their dead, famed for its preservative powers.
And he made it clear that he was not joking in the least in his continued refusal to back Senator Barry Goldwater for President. Explained Keating: "I cannot in good conscience conceal my convictions behind a facade of conformity disguised as unity. I seriously doubt that any voter in New...