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...stumbled repeatedly. The crowds listened attentively as Stevenson angrily replied to Republican concentration on the corruption issue ("I am getting a little tired of having to go around the country telling people that I, too, am an honest man."), and they laughed regularly at the repeated Stevenson wisecrack: "I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends ... If they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Little Tired | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...solve such special problems as what a little girl should do with a horse she won on a giveaway show (the consensus: sell it). After five years on radio, most of the juvenile jurymen are sufficiently grooved in show business to upstage each other, mug heavily at every wisecrack, and slip effortlessly into a Scotch Tape commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

Mike accepted on the spot, and with a characteristic wisecrack. "What have I got to lose?" he asked. "After all, I've only got one political life to give to my country." Then he packed two suitcases, kissed his wife and five children goodbye, and headed for Washington to take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: What Have I Got to Lose? | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...Cassino front. The major character, Pfc. Gühler, obviously a facsimile of Author Richter, believes that the Nazi army is doomed; his buddies are beginning to doubt the Führer's omnipotence. Some German soldiers, hoping to be captured, greet each other with the wisecrack, "Auf Wiedersehen in Kanada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Hitler's Army | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...press party given by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Hearst's Bob Considine did little better; he drew only frozen stares with a wisecrack about 10-cc syringes. Hard-bitten Reporter James Kilgallen also stopped a Manchester dowager cold with his definition of how to pronounce his name: "Kill gallon, madam. Like booze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not Since Scopes? | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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