Word: wisecrack
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...professional sensibilities hurt, felt they had been locked out for no good reason. Given a lecture (but refused any reason for it) instead of an explanation, they felt doubly wronged. There was a moment of blank, hurt silence. A White House aide tried to break the tension with a wisecrack. The tension was not broken...
Marines take it all with sardonic cheerfulness, with a smile or wisecrack. When the Japanese fail to provide excitement Mother Nature steps in. Last night there was an earthquake shock to spice the routine...
...Skyrocket." Melvin ("Mel") Allen, 29, a tall, thin, dark-and-curly-haired, good-looking young man from Alabama, wears clothes like a fashion plate from Esquire. Mel likes to wisecrack, does it often in a pleasant, comfortable voice. Like Red Barber, Allen seldom gets ruffled. Before he turned broadcaster he was an all-round athlete at Alabama U. (nickname: "The Skyrocket") and a semi-pro ballplayer. He is one of the most versatile and accurate U.S. sportscasters. When he reads from a script, his voice has no particular accent, but when he ad libs it comes straight from Dixie. Probable...
...broad, some short, some tall. One of them was turned down twice by the Army because he had been sitting at a desk too long, so he swung a pick for 18 months in a construction gang and got into the Navy. They were just Americans, with a ready wisecrack, an eye for a pretty leg, a nostalgia for the corner drugstore at home and an idea that they wanted to be somebody someday...
...friendly and clump busily around in flat shoes, hideous grey cotton stockings and broad smiles. Personnel officers have noted that the morale is better on posts which have uniformed girls, but when the WAAFs were waiting on table the doughboys showed a tendency to call them Sugar, Honey, and wisecrack with them as with waitresses of the world, which is not considered proper treatment for lady troops. Middleaged, local domestics are now doing most of the work; they have learned not to shine American buttons, which are lacquered and ruined by polish...