Word: quipping
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...have," said Carter Glass, "but I'm the only one in the room who has." For his quip Senator Glass got a pen that made...
...plan for extending NRA for two years (see p. 63). Franklin Roosevelt had already snubbed them by sending no message to their meeting. To his newshawks he now cut loose, rubbed the nose of the Chamber of Commerce in the dust, made it the butt of many a biting quip. His chief points...
...spread on the desk in duplicate. Senhor Aranha, sitting on the President's right, and Secretary Hull, sitting at his left, put their signatures to it in the presence of a solemn gathering of diplomatic assistants. Last of all, the President turned to Ambassador Aranha with a parting quip...
Finally came the laugh-provoking quip for which the Rumanian Senators were waiting. They all understood juicy Jorga to be referring to ascetic Bachelor Julius Maniu when he crushingly concluded: "People who do not sin usually do not sin because they are not able...
Jokes touching any member of the Royal Family were abruptly and permanently barred by the British Broadcasting Corporation last week as postmen arrived with truckloads of protests against a quip broadcast from Leamington by Comedian Ernie Moss. Referring to the world's largest underwater tunnel, lately opened by His Majesty (TIME, July 30), shrill Mr. Moss chirped: "I was to have opened the Mersey Tunnel but the King charged a pound less, so I didn...