Word: quip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience to Jim Londos. and then finding that he has mistaken an unknown lady in the third row. for the onetime champion wrestler (see p. 22). While one part of the audience blushes and the other part guffaws. Comedian Berle proceeds to imitate a person of uncertain gender, quip about the show girls' fundaments, shout depraved announcements into a loudspeaker. Less mad than Jimmy Durante, less subtle than Willie Howard, Comedian Berle's horrid humor is noisily unique. He seems to get a great deal...
...Paulites abroad detest the time-honored quip: "I hear the Twin Cities are to be combined and will be called Minnehaha-'Minne' for Minneapolis and 'Haha' for St. Paul...
Brer Briand is proud of the quip. He calls it the Third Battle of the Marne...
...detachment, he conjured up Elizabeth. In Portraits in Miniature he selected such piquant souls as Sir John Harington. who, "suddenly inspired," invented the water-closet. Spindle-shanked, bespectacled, reclusive, with a long red beard and a high falsetto voice, he was the point of many a pundit's quip.* Died. Paul Moritz Warburg, 63, famed banker, board chairman of The Manhattan Co. and (also founder) the International Acceptance Bank; of hypostatic pneumonia after a long illness; in Manhattan. Member of a potent Hamburg banking family (M. M. Warburg & Co., founded 1798), he married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb...
...five dozen other notables. Mr. Rockefeller, at ease among intimate friends, recalled what a young man (27) he was when Drs. Smith, Flexner, Welch and others organized the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Welch saluted Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Rockefeller, and other ladies present, with an old bachelor's old quip, forebore retelling his more jovial stories...