Word: wisecrack
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...earliest moviegoing days the idea of a football stadium Press Box has fascinated me. It has carried in my mind connotations of tough-looking journalists, each one more expert in the fine points of the game than the next, and each one striving frantically to out-type, out-wisecrack and out-drink his neighbors...
...assumed that Mr. Churchill spoke for Franklin Roosevelt too. So sure were newsmen that some kind of aid would be forthcoming that they quoted a Washington wisecrack: "The Aid Democracies Bill has become the Lenin-Lease Bill...
Sirs: After reading your pidgin English version of Mose Simms's departure from St. Mary's University [TIME, April 28], I want to protest the wisecrack made in the first paragraph of your story, which was apparently written after a night of struggles with paranoia...
Always alert for a pat tag from the Bard, a chance to get off a self-deprecatory wisecrack, Britons last week merrily quoted Hamlet to each other, felt an obscure contentment that the most fantastic episode in Britain's greatest war could be cosily tied up with Shakespeare...
...before his sensational trial for pederasty, Oscar Wilde said to French Novelist Andre Gide: "Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life-I have put only my talent into my works." Like many another Wilde wisecrack-Biographer Winwar believes-that one had a solid core of astute truth, and contained a clue to Wilde's ripe mixture of estheticism and grossness, charm and repulsiveness, sincerity and exhibitionism. His genius consisted in living, in the most hostile environment possible-Victoria's industrial England-as though...