Word: jibed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still smarting under the Mayor-elect's jibe, retiring Director Schofield among his last acts dismissed 228 policemen and promoted one patrolman to sergeant. That one was Charles P. Lang, whom Secretary Charles Francis Adams of the Navy dismissed from the Naval Reserve for wearing a U. S. uniform while making a liquor raid last July. "Lang," explained Mr. Schofield, "was made a martyr in the Navy and despite an honorable career was dismissed ... by a misguided and egotistic little whiffet...
Framed by tasteful Joseph Urban, dressed by Charles LeMaire, the production starts off with a musical satire on the Empire State Building. Point of the jibe is that the skyscraper has insufficient sanitary facilities: "There are three on every floor; there should have been four." Following this scatalog in quick succession come shapely Song-Shouter Ethel Merman (née Zimmerman) who was in Girl-Crazy, funny Willie & Eugene Howard (Willie is also late of Girl Crazy), a splendid dancer named Ray Bolger who has weak knees, sure feet. There is also Everett Marshall, who has brought his fine voice...
...Beggar On Horseback (1924), Mr. Kaufman's jibe at the popular ballade was "If You Turned Me Down Like You Turned Me Down, Then Why Did You Turn Me Down...
...those austere and dignified members of the faculty better than Mr. Hoover's new secretary employed to "humanize him." Students flocked to see not simply the unbending official, but his personality behind the mask of officialdom. They went to see their elders take in good humor an occasional personal jibe. They came back satisfied that after all faculty men are not entirely unsympathetic, inhuman pedagogues. Yale News...
...some form of success from the parley, he was disappointed at the manner in which its negotiations seemed to be going around & around & around in a profitless circle. Chief Delegate Stimson continued to send him optimistic reports on the possibility of progress, but Stimson optimism did not seem to jibe with the pessimistic cablings of expert newsmen. Strong though the temptation was for him to interfere with the U. S. delegation, to take what diplomats call "a strong public position," President Hoover continued his patient hands-off policy. Even to his closest friends he said little of what he thought...