Word: jokers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...point of additional interest you might make an inquiry of the National Banks to see just how many of them will now make loans on these Certificates as provided for under Section B. There is quite a joker there! Look into...
...barely possible that these scores may have been sent in by an imposter, a low impractical joker, but by tonight, after the games have been won and lost, CRIMSON readers will be able to tell whether these scores spring from the all-seeing mind of the sage...
Scarcely more credible is the theory that the damage, was caused by the sorry action of a would-be practical Joker. Among the traditions of every student community are treasured the ooups of the great practical jokers of its past--men famed for the astuteness and the climactic humor of their deeds. If the present bit of stupid destruction were intended in emulation of these deeds, it can only be judged as a miserable failure. More charitable would it be to attribute it to a move of simply insanity...
...committee of the potent Trade Union Congress, meeting in London, blandly manifested to the Labor Government that the dole must be increased by paying the unemployed five shilling per week for their first child, three shillings for each succeeding child, from birth to the age for leaving school. A joker in the bill was the fact that illegitimate as well as legitimate children would draw the allowance. Agonized Liberal and Conservative editors cried that the measure as proposed would enormously increase the dole for British taxpayers, "threaten the sanctity of the home, and put a premium upon promiscuity...
...aback he took refuge in communistic methods. Yesterday, however, in a saner moment, these were discarded for the better part of valour, which, as everyone knows, is discretion. As a result, it is heartwarming to hear that the faculty may in the near future have mercy on the whimsical joker...