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Word: joshing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thompson, himself, would have been delighted with Louis Leon Hall's interpretation of kindly old Uncle Josh. As Happy Jack, Mr. Nedell chalked up another hit; but he had to work at top pitch to keep up with Olive Blakeney, who, as Rickety Anne, kept things "movin'" on the farm. John Collier, an ex 47 Workshop man, starred as "my boy Reub". The whole company, indeed, from the Stage Manager and Master Mechanic to the Director, Sam Godfrey, himself, were on the boards and they made the audience "glad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/26/1924 | See Source »

...have never met a kindly old man, if you have never seen the village band in full regalia, with Fezes and substantial "cuds", if you've never heard a farm-hand quartet around the old oaken bucket, nor seen simple Uncle Josh cavorting in a palatial New York Mansion, if you don't believe that "ridin" over the New Hampshire Hills is better than a Turkish bath, or if you haven't stamped or clapped at a Virginia Reel in the kitchen of the farm, if you haven't seen and heard and done all the things that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/26/1924 | See Source »

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