Word: quips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trippers who were circling Vermont's Neshobe Island, summer hideaway of the late Alexander Woollcott, spied, under a vast straw hat, a vast bulk swathed in a dressing gown. "Who on earth is that?" screamed one of the ladies. "Marie Dressier," said her benchmate-thereby adding another quip to the many already provoked by Mr. Woollcott's complex personality...
...Coming across" has been the leitmotiv of the Somoza regime. Cattlemen pay through import-&-export levies, marketing and slaughtering licenses. Gold-mine operators pay through special "taxes." Those who deal in mahogany, cinchona bark, milk, hides, tallow, cement and liquor pay in devious but nonetheless painful ways. Nicaraguans quip about an alphabetical list of Somoza rackets running from A to Z; they say that X stands for rackets unknown to the public...
...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...