Word: jibes
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...nephew, the Viscount Scarsdale, is enjoined to preserve the estate and tradition of Kedleston. In words which recalled the famous Oxonian jibe: "I am George Nathaniel Curzon, a really most superior person," he urges his nephew and successor, the present Viscount Scarsdale, to preserve the estate of Kedleston and the traditions of the family...
Backslapping, loud-laughing, jibe-yell- ing, hip-fumbling, baby-boasting, bet-making, do-you-remembering college alumni poured out of automobiles, airplanes, railroad trains and into the alma maters of the U. S. for their class reunions...
...They don't know the difference between a sculptor and a tombstone-cutter," said Sculptor Borglum of the committeemen of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association. Impressed by the jibe, the committeemen held a session, last week, to find a successor to Borglum. They considered, one by one, the names of 100 famed sculptors, warily blackballed all whose reputations disclosed the least hint of tombstone-cutting, chose, at length, a Virginian sculptor, Augustus Lukeman...
...could give me lessons on how to run an election," came the meaning retort from the Premier. And, later, in answer to another jibe from Giolitti, Signor Mussolini rapped out: "You may rest assured we will not use the artillery in our election. You have done even that...
Charles S. Chaplin: "In Hollywood, I entered a restaurant with Mary Miles Minter and other friends. At an adjoining table sat a group, among them Mildred Harris, my divorced wife. One of the men di-rected a slighting remark at me, followed the jibe with a punch. I retaliated; the fight became general. Other diners rushed in, separated us. Next day I appeared with a bona fide black eye. Reports said I claimed it to be a publicity stunt, admitted to have been caught off guard." Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, (See Page 5): "At the Madison Square Garden Poultry Show...