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...tradition has grown up among the motion picture companies that the life of a newspaperman is one abounding in liquid refreshment and lacking in any excess of work. The reporter as typified by the talking screen is most cynical, always ready with a laughable quip, almost scholarly, inclined to be untidy in his dress, and only at home in a speakeasy. "Platinum Blonde" is a picture that conforms with this tradition, but there seems to be more attention to newspaper routine, and less drinking than usual...
...tide. Those boys so normal in college days, who had hung on the Vagabond's every word with awe and rapture, now forgot him. Their talk was medical talk. Their tragedies were medical tragedies. Their jokes were medical jokes. My and what poor jokes medical pleasantries are. If a quip is to have any point at all someone...
...more than look at the pictures, read the often ponderously British captions underneath, wonder what the English see in them to smile at. And there the occa- sional Punch reader is too hasty, for hidden away in those oldfashioned, closely printed columns are to be found many a quip and crank that would wreathe even an alien reader in smiles. For the past three years Alan Patrick Herbert, Punch staff member and tireless contributor, has been regaling readers with the letters of Topsy, exclamatory and energetic post-War type, to her bosom friend. Publishers Doubleday, Doran have collected them...
...Calif., until a new state law made it a "city of the sixth class" and Rogers "mayor emeritus." President Wilson said that he found Rogers' remarks "not only humorous ... but illuminating." In 1919 he published his first book. The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference, which contains his famed quip: "It says in there [the Peace Covenant] 'There is to be no more wars.' And then there is a paragraph further down telling you where to get your ammunition in case there was one." Worth more than $2,000,000, he plays polo not badly, earns $750,000 per year...
Sirs: I note that Mr. J. H. Landers of Temple, Tex., has called your hand about the height of skyscrapers; reminded you that the omission of the Amicable Building at Waco, Tex., was a grave one. Mr. Landers might have related an amusing quip well known in the Southwest. It is told that a gentleman from Shreveport or Tulsa (the old chronicles are not explicit) was made acquainted with a Waconian. "So you're from Waco, are you?" he drawled. "Yes suh, thass right," agreed the Waconian. "And may I ask, suh. what floor do you live on?" wisecracked...