Word: quip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start of this week the market gave itself a breathing spell, the list climbed a few points back up the ladder. Meanwhile from a prime U.S. capitalist came a remark reminiscent of Andrew Mellon's famed quip early in 1929 that "gentlemen prefer bonds." Said Chairman Ernest Tener Weir of National Steel Corp.: "I think that the present situation can be made very serious unless people stock, look and listen...
...first victory over England on British soil in 1882, a sportswriter in the London Sporting Times wrote a facetious epitaph for English cricket, announced that the body would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. Any chance that Britishers would ever stop relishing this grisly little quip was effectively destroyed when England's dashing Ivo Bligh, who captained a team that beat Australia the following year, brought back an urn full of real ashes. He explained that when, after the final match at Melbourne, English ladies had celebrated the victory by running out onto the field and setting...
...house-keeper-mistress (Gertrude Lawrence) becomes a shrew. He finds a few short years of peace and success with the adoring Hendrickje Stoffels, but her death leaves him friendless and penniless. Even in his last year the painter gets fun out of living, but he gives a cynical parting quip, "Vanity, vanity, all is vanity". Laughton is in top-rate form, dominating every minute of the lusty, strong picture...
...extreme decentralization of the American system, the general disreputable manner in which polities are carried on throughout a large part of this country has much to do with the reluctance of the more highly educated classes to enter the maelstrom of machine-ridden government. It is no idle quip when political observes say time and again that American politics is no place for a gentleman...
...said about the New Deal, the efforts of President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull to increase the trade of the United States and to drag the country out from behind the fences she has raised, promise to be to the permanent credit of the administration. Mr. Hoover's quip about the "more abundant life" is an indication of the shallow thought behind his attack. The man who coined the phrase, "Prosperity is just around the corner," should look before he leaps on another man's catchword...