Word: quip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arts Trio in 1968, Cohen spent more than ten years with the Julliard String Quartet. He has also appeared as a guest artist with the distinguished Budapest Quartet. In some ways, Cohen is the most jocular of the Beaux Arts, often relieving the tension of rehearsals with a quick quip...
...Diego, Dorothea Morefield, who may almost have been serious in jesting that "I'm getting tired of the color yellow," also had a quip when her husband Richard called from West Germany. She pleaded, "The next time you're going to be late for dinner, please call." When John E. Graves reached his son Martin in Reston, Va., he confided, "Believe it or not, I didn't think I could, but I've discovered that I can find my way to the toilet alone...
...make plans for his own transition. In Plains he visited his mother, who is recuperating from a hip injury, and cleared out her house in town, which he will rent for less than $250 a month, to use as his office. Unlike Reagan. Carter departed with no get-off quip, but Mondale, who plans to join a Washington law firm, had an exit line that elicited a response any vaudevillian would envy...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 96, eldest daughter of President Teddy, wife of House Speaker Nicholas and a tart-tongued Washington hostess who delighted in the biting quip. In her upstairs sitting room she kept a pillow embroidered with the advice, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here...
...fight the Cubans in Ethiopia." It would have been a harmless joke, except that the Soviets as well as some State Department officials were already quivering with anxiety about the anti-Soviet overtones of the trip, and the reporters gathered round were sure to overhear the quip and make news out of it. They...