Word: wisecrack
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...picture WPA as an improvident little grasshopper, dressed in a high hat and picket sign. Aching to prove he is no grasshopper, Georgia-born, 43-year-old Howard Hunter, who has spent one-third of all Federal money allotted to WPA in the last three years, made a wisecrack worthy of Harry Hopkins by disclosing he attributes his perfect complexion to the Tribune. "My stomach functions perfectly and I never take salts," said he. "I just read the Tribune every morning...
...businessman of the pair. But Hart, who employs a business manager, who "runs a temperature" when he does not feel like working, who has to be yanked out of bed late in the day by a determined Negro servant girl, and who prefers to meet a question with a wisecrack rather than an answer, very likely knows to the fourth decimal place the dollars-and-cents value of his "temperament." Aside from Jerome Kern years ago, Rodgers does not feel that anyone has influenced him musically. He hates swing, and so does Hart: "It's old stuff. Benny Goodman...
...chief distinctions so far have been the facts that: 1) he has only one sound truck to two for each of his opponents; 2) his expenses are thus far listed at $3,000 to $6,000 for Sholtz, $7,000 for Pepper; 3) he made the best wisecrack of the campaign...
...still goes on. Last fortnight, Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis strode jerkily onto a platform in Manhattan, and with hands in pockets, galvanic shrugs and many a wisecrack, proceeded to deliver his eighth lecture of the season. An explosive, rapid-fire attack on stage censorship, Reds, Fascists and Ernest Hemingway, the lecture was entitled It Has Happened Here. Next month he will repeat his performance in Albuquerque, N. Mex. That same week in Upper Montclair, N. J., Salvador de Madariaga will be going on about The Future of Liberty, and Ludwig Lewisohn will be holding forth on books. In Grand Rapids...
...occasion in question did not call for a wisecrack of this nature. I did not make it and I do not doubt that many reading the remark attributed to me, will feel that I acted in a most unbecoming and undignified manner...