Word: quipped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusion, I wish to assure the Lampoon board that, although my copy was bought (on the way to the game) rather than borrowed, I do not demand my money back. There was a so-called quip in the issue about a man having a quarter and not knowing whether to buy "Snappy Stories" or the "Tiger", and the newsdealer replying. "Aw, what's the matter with the quarter anyhow?" I cannot help but wonder whether the writer didn't foresee my paying my quarter for the Lampoon. Of course there was no question of comparing the Lampoon to "Snappy Stories...
...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...
...Gag?slang for "witticism" or "quip." Slang synonyms: "wisecrack," "nifty...