Word: quipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue in the campaign, it was still one of the nation's liveliest. Comely Actress Helen Gahagan, Democratic National Committeewoman, shouted herself hoarse for Olson. Gregarious Actor Leo Carrillo, descendant of California's first provisional Governor, added gags to humorless Earl Warren's meetings. Typical Carrillo quip: introducing Warren to "my cousins" in the audience...
...last Franklin Roosevelt saved his quip of the day, the question of John J. Bennett's nomination in New York. The Chief picked up a newspaper, read therefrom Columnist Mark Sullivan's remarks about a press conference with Under Secretary of War Bob Patterson: "Mr. Patterson said merely that he had no worthwhile comment. If Mr. Patterson has no copyright on those four short words, 'no worth-while comment,' they could be advantageously used by some other Washington officials who face press conferences...
...Good quip: Grant, injured, hunted, fed up with Colman's idealistic legal philosophizings, blurts out: "Professor, you don't live in this country; you just take a room...
Magic Name. Though he is the spittin' image of his father, down to the unruly cowlick and the twangy voice, Will Jr. has not inherited his dad's gift for the newsy quip, the folksy gag. He has gone in for sterner stuff. Naturally hesitant to live in his father's shadow, for years he called himself Bill. He is not unmindful of the political value of his name and appearance. (For the campaign Bill has become Will Jr.) But as the earnest publisher of the Beverly Hills Citizen, Will Jr. has made a quiet name...
John v. John. Concerning the battle between John Barrymore and John Barleycorn he was least reticent of all. He might quip that he was "just an ingenue about booze," but he also boasted that Chaliapin was the only drinking companion who ever laid...