Word: quipped
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Vice President Alben W. Berkley bussed a Virginia beauty, crowned her queen of the Culpeper bicentennial festival and cracked: "While I'm in the mood, I may crown one of my own some of these days and keep her." The quip, 71-year-old Widower Barkley hastily explained to reporters overeager for the sound of wedding bells, had nothing whatever to do with Mrs. Carleton Hadley, the comely widow whom he had just visited in St. Louis...
...three scripters who rewrote the original screenplay have turned out an almost unbroken series of gags and gambits. For every ounce of Runyon's boozy Broadway sentiment they have added a pound of farce. Hope, past master of the triple-quip and the doubletake, tosses off this mixture with obvious relish. Little Mary Jane, though no Shirley Temple, shows pretty talent as a straight man. Hope's other helpers, including Lucille Ball and William Demarest, provide sturdy filler for an already meaty comedy...
...Behind Bamboo. Japanese, on the whole, are deeply grateful to Americans; but they like military government no better than any other people. A popular quip among English-speaking Japanese holds that the letters GHQ on Americans' uniforms stand for: "Go Home Quick...
...Camden, N.J., President Arthur E. Armitage of the College of South Jersey (475 students) got off a quip. Other colleges had done well for themselves by changing their names to honor a great benefactor, * he told his audience; it might be a good idea for South Jersey...
...status and the disposition of 500,000 Arab refugees* still had to be settled. Israel's other Arab neighbors, Syria, Lebanon and Transjordan, must be satisfied, and Syria, in particular, was showing signs of unabated bitterness. But the confident Israeli were not expecting trouble from anyone. A quip going the rounds of Tel Aviv last week: "Armistice applications accepted only during business hours...