Word: wisecrackers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every critic, however roughly he may seem to wisecrack away the achievements of his enemies, the creators, will sooner or later shyly unlock his playbox...
...Owen J. Roberts, lately a Supreme Court Justice, the situation called for an extra-legal wisecrack. Easing into his speech at last week's annual membership meeting of the Associated Press, he twinkled: "I look upon you as in a certain sense malefactors...
...With a stenographer and her companion-secretary, she zips through her daily grist with a sharp eye out for the "angle" that will cue a sermonette. Every afternoon her chauffeur drives her through Audubon Park and back to the swank Prytania Street apartment. Her stock wisecrack, when showing guests her fine Louis XIV bed: "I'll bet I'm the only respectable woman who ever slept...
That's hoisting a man on his own wisecrack, and properly. But I would like to straighten the quote and explain the origin. When the late, and I believe great newspaperman, Arthur Brisbane, took over the Mirror to haul it out of the red ... I was his pupil and aide. He once wrote me something he said someone had told him. That's as far as I can trace the genealogy of the quote; but it still makes pretty good advice for a young newspaperman or a young politician...
...special train last week backed into geranium-decked Union Station at Savannah, Ga. Out piled delegates from 34 member nations of the Bretton Woods Fund and Bank. The town, still smarting from Lady Astor's recent wisecrack (see PEOPLE) had washed its face for the occasion, turned out en masse to cheer the delegates...