Word: wisecrackers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Estimate meeting by correcting a Tammany clerk who persisted in reading a petition for the Goethe Society as if it were spelled "goat." Mayor McKee is married, has two sons, spends his summers at Mamaroneck. To Broadway and its night life he is unknown. He does not smoke, drink, wisecrack. He golfs in the 90's. Modest and self-effacing, he referred to himself last week as "acting mayor...
Private Lives (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "Certain women should be struck regularly-like gongs." In itself, this is not particularly witty. It is neither an epigram nor a wisecrack and anyone who made it at a dinner table would be lucky if it caused a smile. On the other hand, it is light-hearted and emphatic. Spoken by a cultivated young man to a lady with whom he is both in love and angry, it becomes funny. It illustrates the formula for Noel Coward's Private Lives, in which the author made his job easy by arranging his situations...
Wall Street must have its wisecrack. "High finance" was the weak but prevalent pun heard last week when Fiduciary Trust Co. opened for business on the 30th floor of No. i Wall St. But other bankers pre- pared to watch Fiduciary's course with deep interest. Distinctly it is a new departure in banking. The idea for Fiduciary Trust was conceived by the law firm of Root, Clark & Buckner and the investment counsel firm of Scudder, Stevens & Clark which, formed in 1919 as the first purely professional investment adviser, now spends $400,000 a year in research, handles some...
...what he did last night. Each revelation bends him a little further. The Sexes, also a dialog, pictures the love-life of a "sheik," a flapper. The Mantle of Whistler is a dialog between a girl and a man, just introduced, both of whom have a reputation for wisecracking to keep up. Nothing but a succession of thin-worn comebacks; it gives the impression of being itself a wisecrack about wisecracking...