Word: quip
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Last week his countrymen had a new quip: "It was simple. Credit: Velasco came in. Debit: $6,500,000 went...
...Dewey is a clever lad. His cleverness is of the type that makes this old-line Republican ready to accept the quip that you can like Tom until you begin to know him well...
...elections differ from our own; [Americans] have more of the gift for the snappy phrase. . . . Thus we have John L. Lewis describing Sidney Hillman . . . as 'a Russian pants-maker who is trying to take over the rule of the nation.' Who can think of a single good quip by Sir Robert Borden or Mr. Bennett or Mr. King? . . . Who can equal Mr. Ickes' phrase about the youthful Mr. Dewey 'throwing his diapers into the ring,' or his description of Wendell Willkie as 'the barefoot boy from Wall Street...
...trippers who were circling Vermont's Neshobe Island, summer hideaway of the late Alexander Woollcott, spied, under a vast straw hat, a vast bulk swathed in a dressing gown. "Who on earth is that?" screamed one of the ladies. "Marie Dressier," said her benchmate-thereby adding another quip to the many already provoked by Mr. Woollcott's complex personality...
...Coming across" has been the leitmotiv of the Somoza regime. Cattlemen pay through import-&-export levies, marketing and slaughtering licenses. Gold-mine operators pay through special "taxes." Those who deal in mahogany, cinchona bark, milk, hides, tallow, cement and liquor pay in devious but nonetheless painful ways. Nicaraguans quip about an alphabetical list of Somoza rackets running from A to Z; they say that X stands for rackets unknown to the public...