Word: quip
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...remarked: "The state of fishing has, I believe, been said to exist when there is a fool at one end of a string and a worm at the other. . . ." The president, elected to preside over the 95th annual meeting of this hoary and distinguished assemblage, had chosen to quip facetiously and without precedent. The president's audience, numbering some 1,500 distinguished scientists, twittered and tittered with ap- preciation-for the president was Edward of Wales. His speech, though about nothing* in particular, was so much more amusing than that delivered in 1859 by the last royal president...
...seems a bent and spectacled waiter whose mustaches droop. When he should stand up before the Royal Society of Literature to receive its gold medal, many a critical eye would be upon him. Dean Inge would certainly make some acidulous remark next day. Lord Darling might crack a senile quip upon the spot. And Louis Raemaekers would be there. His broad Dutch pencil might well produce a devastating caricature...
With the daily press almost unanimous in its adulation of the leaders of the present Golden Age, and the journals of opinion confining themselves to an occasional quip about the White House twang or Countess Karolyi, the surviving liberals have nothing to do but sit back until the national course of events brings Shadwell's castle tumbling about his ears...
...Significance. Mr. Bennett once wrote a book called Things That Have Interested Me. That title was a quip, for everything interests Mr. Bennett. He sees a shining saucepan, a sleek yacht, a sorry little woman ; he thinks : "Who scrubbed it? Where is it going? Has anyone ever loved her?" So, doubtless, think others, but Mr. Bennett goes to the trouble of finding out. He knows how servants think, how yachts run, how music teadiers meet their fate. He wears a duster on his helmet; he is the knight of Curiosity. More than that he is one of those simple ones...
...Gag?slang for "witticism" or "quip." Slang synonyms: "wisecrack," "nifty...