Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NOBODY'S VINEYARD- H. C. Bailey-^k Crime Club ($2). Josh Clunk, London criminal lawyer, who chants revival hymns while plotting legal deviltries, saves a client and clears up, in his own oblique style, four mysterious deaths in a corrupt English seaside town. A highly rewarding yarn...
...archaic fifth-floor office a Negro named Josh fits smoothly into Editor McGill's inefficient routine: he totes Coca-Cola and coffee, informs telephone callers: "Mr. McGill ain't here...
...halls of Congress up rose Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee, to tell what his Military Affairs subcommittee thought of cargo planes and the men who scoffed at them. Senator Lee had always been an Administration stalwart, slow to criticize an official word or deed. Now his words sounded as if a new, fighting spirit were abroad on Capitol Hill...
...such a demand, from such men, there was yet hope. A leading Wheeler-Isolationist, Colorado's Senator Ed Johnson, strangely got together with a leading Roosevelt-New Dealer, Oklahoma's Josh Lee, to propose a Senate bill to create a new military supply board to direct immediate construction of cargo planes-thus indicating their impatience with a war effort which fails to do the right things fast enough...
...Oklahoma farmer entered the race for the job of Senator Josh Lee. The candidate's name: Josh...