Word: wisecrackers
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...spectators) four fights broke out in the mob that couldn't get into the court room; bailiffs were unable to squeeze their way out to disperse the mob; Mrs. Dilling's 24-year-old son made a lunge at a spectator who had made a wisecrack; because the gallery kept guffawing, the judge finally cleared the court; Mrs. Dilling, trying to make a little anti-Semitic speech, got herself cited for contempt...
...Negro is not a Baptist," they sometimes say down South, "someone has tampered with his religion." Last week this ecclesiastical wisecrack got scientific backing from Anthropology Professor Melville Jean Herskovits of Northwestern, who declared in The Myth of the Negro Past (Harper; $4) that the river cults of West Africa predisposed Southern Negroes to favor the Baptist Church...
Good as Mr. Moore is, he has to bank on the turns to stay ahead of Comic Bob Hope, the Flexible Flyer. Each of them is a hilarious mixture of dopey dove and smart serpent. Hope's style of comedy (the dead-pan wisecrack, the unembarrassed exhibition-e.g., demonstrating the correct way to don a woman's girdle) is designed for counterpunching. His performance is patly complementary to that of Victor Moore, who has been around long enough (66 years) to know how to handle enthusiastic young comics without either stealing or being stolen from...
According to a standard Argentine wisecrack the Argentine ballot is so secret that even the voter does not know for whom he is voting. But Buenos Aires voters, whatever their sympathies, had no doubt that when the returns came in the Conservatives would have...
...Lieut. Dombret of the Belgian General Staff sold Germany Belgium's secret plans for defense long before the war broke out. Agents of the Department-B type also got such unbribable men as Pétain and Weygand where they wanted them. Despite the pre-war Parisian wisecrack, "Did you know that our Foreign Minister is also in the pay of the French?," many reputable friends of Bonnet still cannot believe he was a traitor. Riess claims to know better, gives the reason why: Goebbels had in his possession "a rather large" canceled check which M. Bonnet had received...