Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct of its chief tycoon typifies the Islands' democracy. When he goes into a Honolulu shop to buy a new hat, the clerk calls him "Walter." Old native-women selling Lei at the steamers josh with him in Hawaiian. When an enterprising young Jew sought to marry the daughter of a potent Gentile ship-operator, the girl's father, distressed, went to 'Walter' for help, advice. Said Mr. Dillingham: "Go on and let her marry him. She could do a whole lot worse...
...worthy of consideration. True he is a humorist, but he is a serious humorist. His comic spirit is no capricious tease, or polished wit, or jovial scholar, but the ghost of a shrewd, observant Yankee with twinkling eyes and pursed lips. It is the spirit of Mark Twain, or Josh Billings, or even Abraham Lincoln, people are saying. And his wit is surpassed only by his esoteric knowledge of his chosen field...
...ranks of stolid citizenry, the imminent danger of a permanent one-party rule are symptoms of the same sickness as that of which political invective died. Mayor Rogers may rally other joyous wits and fearless spirits to his cause. The future may have an Ariemus Ward, a Josh Billings, a Mr. Dooley yet unborn. It is certainly to be hoped that this is true. For not only is the cool, sour edge of satire a keen tool to political progress, but without it, this business of government would become a dreary thing indeed...
...concise manner with which you have dealt with the cotton situation in the South lately. I happen to live in the county which raises more cotton than any other county in the world as general rule and it is a vital matter to us since cotton is our lifeblood. JOSH H. GROCE Groce & Groce Attorneys at Law Waxahachie...
Allow me first of all to call your attention to the admonition so well worded by Josh Billings: "It is better not to know so many things than so many things that...