Word: quipping
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...Tennessee's tall, boyish Congressman Albert Gore offered a quip, carefully attributing it to a hillbilly constituent: "It's never a good idea to change horses in the middle of a stream. But if I ever come to that pass where I've got to consider doing it, I will sure draw the line at changing to a Shetland pony...
...those limits, imposed by a strong sense of Dominion independence, seemed unduly narrow to the Prime Minister, he did not seem to worry unduly. In fact, referring to Commonwealth & Empire, he got off a fine Churchillian quip: "The word Empire is permitted to be used, which may be a great shock to a certain strain of intellectual opinion...
...girls. It was spiked by the presence of swart Comic Alan Carney, and there was a fine moment when haughty Margaret Dumont shattered a cocktail glass with a sour note in her rendition of Over the Waves. But the film is best summed up in one critic's quip: "Seven days can be a long time...
...After a long struggle, TIME confesses that Reader Cooke is probably correct. But neither the New York Public Library, nor H. L. Mencken, nor the Hartford Courant can produce the editorial in which Editor Warner allegedly made the quip...
Collector Bache's favorite painters were Raphael, Holbein, Goya, Fragonard. But he seldom ventured to buy paintings without the advice of Britain's No. 1 art dealer, Lord Duveen, whose merchandising motto was: "Nothing but recognized masterpieces." The result is a popular quip: "The Bache collection-too, too Duveen !", and a group of paintings unmarred by any of the second-and third-rate art that usually creeps into such galleries...