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...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...
...quip of the moment was: "If England wins, we are losers; if Germany wins, we are lost." The underground Matteotti society circulated an antiFascist, anti-German newspaper. Students toyed with Rivoluzionario groups; older antiFascists were increasingly active in the Free Italy secret organization directed in the U.S. by cultured, white-bearded Count Sforza...
...Chip Quip. In Denver, the State director of revenue refused to put the Colorado state emblem, a buffalo, on new tax tokens for fear they would be called buffalo chips...