Word: quips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist? During last year's Austrian elections, a quip was heard around the polls: "Nobody who owns a watch is Communist in Austria." When the returns were in, the Communists had managed to roll up only 5% of the country's vote (the Volkspartei polled some 50%, the Socialists some 45%). From their brief intermezzo of glory under Russia's exclusive occupation, they retained only one dull portfolio (Power & Electricity) and three seats in Parliament...
Europe in the Spring. "The first King and Queen with whom I broke bread abroad," he goes on, remembering the trip to the Peace Conference in 1919, "were King George and Queen Mary." The King made a little quip; the Queen "was not greatly amused"; they all had a nice lunch. While in Paris for the Peace Conference, the Secretary went to the opera with Admiral W. S. Benson, U.S. Naval Adviser. Benson was "shocked at the near nakedness of the actresses and the risque remarks," and wanted to walk out. Says Daniels: "I quite shared his feelings but told...
...your picture of Frankie with Jo Davidson [TIME, April 22]. You of course selected the worst picture you could find of him so you could get off your quip: "Sinatra and his big bow tie . . . didn't look half so much like a heart-leaping popular idol as 63-year-old Davidson and his little one." I was not amused...
Your magazine's quip at Protestants' ambiguity is typical of TIME'S pro-Catholic prejudice. It is becoming tiresome...
Bevin displays little humor and geniality around the office ("Life is Real, Life is Ernest" soon became a common quip). He likes a drink and a chat, but is pathetically awkward at making friends. Nevertheless he won underpaid Foreign Office hearts by going to bat for a general salary raise. When a friend suggested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Daiton, might object, Bargainer Bevin roared: "I'll take the worthy doctor by his pants and swing him around my head till...