Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bitter and unfair" you may be interested to know of Bernard Shaw's recantation or at least modification of that caustic remark in his Preface to The W. E. A. Education Yearbook (1918) pp. 20, 21 : "This, by the way, is the best answer to my famous gibe, 'He who can do, does: he who can think, teaches' is just as true as the other formula...
...accomplished. He, anti-Teutonic, antiSemitic, shrilled at U. S. financiers for associating with the "notorious" German Dye Trust, harked back to War days in which German chemists had unkindly embarrassed the U. S. dye industry through failure to publish their dye patents and processes, and closed with an unfriendly gibe at the presence of Edsel Ford and Paul Warburg on the same directorate...
...written by the celebrity whose signature is his only contribution to his article. Mr. Schuyler said that the newspapermen who do the writing that heroes sign are known as "ghosts." But, whatever they may be called, their existence has long been common knowledge. "I wonder who writes his stuff?" gibe even mildly sophisticated U. S. citizens when a heavyweight prizefighter or a matinee idol sets down the story of his life. The "I" story is part of the modern news-exploitation system; accepted as such without particular...
...greatest come poet of the language, Sullivan was an accomplished composer, without compare in his particular field. Together they rose to heights that would have been unattainable for each single. Gilbert and Sullivan were the perfect union of sense and sound. Sullivan's music matches wit for wit, and gibe for gibe, with Gilbert's book and lyrics. There is not a note which is not in harmony with the spirit of the words; not a lyric or a verse which does not tell the story. In Gilbert and Sullivan you won't find any padding, stuffing's, or irrelevancies...
Lord Curzon, British Foreign Secretary: " In an address in London, I stated that I had ' groaned throughout my lifetime under the cruel brand of an undergraduate gibe.' Years ago while I, as President of the Oxford Union, conducted university debates, a classmate hurled at me a five-lined rhyme which began...