Word: barbe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long out of the hospital where he was laid up by a shower of slings & arrows (alimony, debts, unpaid income taxes, deportation proceedings, all-round exhaustion), caught an extra barb. Word reached him that he had been expelled by Actors Equity because he had falsified his birthplace in applying for membership, claimed he was born in California...
...Barb for Hecklers. Then, in words which seemed to combine a tolerance for Taft with a special barb for U.S. hecklers in Britain, the President continued: "Now, not being a particularly patient man, I share the irritations and the sense of frustration that comes to everybody who is working for what he believes to be a decent purpose and finds himself balked by what he thinks is the ignorance, or the errors, of someone who is otherwise his friend." He could well understand, he went on, the resentment that came at times when we knew we were trying...
...almost every proposal was a barb that brought squeals of dissent from some faction of the Assembly. But Antoine Pinay, who understands the common Frenchman, was reaching beyond the Assembly to the public. "The remedies are neither of the right nor of the left," he said. ". . . They are technical measures to be taken in a climate of political truce...
Most of his remarks, of course, lose their humor when removed from the athletic context. The following, though, is a pretty good example of Williams' ability to take a common coaching practice and add his own peculiarly funny barb...
...Swiss Nudist Club, regards the Helsinki Olympics as a "travesty." Said he last week: "The ancient athletes performed in the nude . . . It would be so much better if the youth of the world . . . remained faithful to the old ideals." So saying, Nudist Fankhauser stepped back inside the barb-wired camp on the shore of Switzerland's Lake of Neuchatel, where some 50 naked men & women from six European countries were competing in "the real Olympiad." U.S. nudists (TIME, Aug. 25) were invited, but decided not to take off for Europe...