Word: quip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Walsh, grim Montana Democrat, at last reminded the chamber what its business had been before his colleague began to roar. Funnyman Moses made a quip about "those speeches that have been made today in behalf of the Republican party." And eventually the Senate went out to recess...
Lorenzen answered this quip by saying...
...Baron Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England. . . . Recently (TIME, April 25) Lord Chief Justice Hewart caused the world to titter with him by awarding "two and six" to a husband who claimed damages for the loss of his wife. Last week, Baron Hewart set out to better this quip. Said he to an attorney in open court: "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer really desires an additional source of revenue, he might consider issuing a new sort of postage stamp which husbands and wives could stick upon each other and automatically become divorced. . . . The rush to obtain divorces since...
...horde moving up the rough at dusk, the Wrecking Crew. . . . Golf has not yet begun this season on some U. S. courses but where Funnyman Wodehouse is read, play need never cease. His long irony is always "on the meat." Never out of bounds, his approaches are infallible; his quip shots all hole out. This Ecstasy...
People who wondered why the Manhattan police had waited so long to descend upon plays against which there had been no popular or critical outcry, found an explanation in this quip. John S. Sumner is not in Who's Who but no man of 50 with an undistinguished record ever had a better chance to get there eventually. He, in this day of homosexual theatre, is the undisputed heir of Anthony Comstock, professional vice warrior...