Word: gibe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London Bill" Tucker's arrogant letter in your Feb. 11 issue-with its haughty gibe about American boys being "overfed, overpaid, oversexed, and over here"-brought back memories of the way we answered this crack during World War II. We damned well let them know that their blokes were underfed, underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower...
...your Sept. 24 story on the Maine election, you gibe at Washington pundits for their explanation of the Democratic victory, but a sentence later you do some odd punditmg yourself: "Support came in strongly from the throngs of independents who ... did not take a shine to the warnings that 'a vote for Muskie is a vote against Ike.' " Isn't it barely possible that the independent voters of Maine agreed that a vote for Muskie was a vote against Eisenhower, and voted for Muskie for exactly that reason...
...this time, his was the greatest literary name in the Hispanic world, and after Primo de Rivera's death, he returned to Salamanca with national acclaim. But Don Miguel was really a Don Quixote, and his Quixote's genius for glory and self-destruction led him to gibe constantly at the liberal republic, to salute the Francoist rebels in 1936, and, characteristically, to live just long enough to regret it. "He alone is truly wise who is conscious of his madness," he said in a lecture at Oxford. "I am conscious of my madness; therefore I am truly...
...week, Scholes and his wife moved to Switzerland, which was kinder to his bronchitis, and settled down to write a compendium for the common, or musically uneducated music lover. The famed Dr. Johnson waggishly defined a lexicographer as "a harmless drudge." Scholes makes no attempt to refute the gibe, in fact rather proudly points to some of his own drudgery; e.g., he meticulously checked numberless musical scores rather than reprint other men's findings, with the "minor" result that he explains and translates "probably a greater number of musical directions than that in any previous publication...
Cruelest of all was the gibe of G. K. Chesterton, who took the one poem in which Kipling approached beauty, Recessional, a prayer for humility under power, and made...