Word: quips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I note that Mr. J. H. Landers of Temple, Tex., has called your hand about the height of skyscrapers; reminded you that the omission of the Amicable Building at Waco, Tex., was a grave one. Mr. Landers might have related an amusing quip well known in the Southwest. It is told that a gentleman from Shreveport or Tulsa (the old chronicles are not explicit) was made acquainted with a Waconian. "So you're from Waco, are you?" he drawled. "Yes suh, thass right," agreed the Waconian. "And may I ask, suh. what floor do you live on?" wisecracked...
Quick to give quip and quiddity is the present Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough of Taplow, famed afterdinner speaker, chairman of the Pilgrim Society of Great Britain. Baron Desborough has other distinctions quite as noteworthy. In his time he has stroked a crew across the English Channel, swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some...
...inserted for no other purpose, ignites the fuse of amusement that a superlative dialog has laid. Caprice is such a play. "You are the most abandoned woman I have ever known," says Albert to lisa, and she replies, "Abandoned? No one has ever abandoned me!" It is a college quip which serves less as a cause than an excuse for laughter. Caprice is the comedy of an artist, not a farceur, though it contains moments of mediocre farce. The author is a Viennese, Geza Sil-Vara, and it is his first play (adapted by Director Moeller) to be presented...
Baron Dewar, famed British whiskey distiller, has a new quip: "I am told that the infallible American method of testing bootleg whiskey is to drop a sledge hammer into it. If it sinks, the stuff is poor, if it floats, good, and if it dissolves, perfect...
Alarmed but also annoyed at seeing his bright quip give rise to international complications, Secretary MacDonald sent by special messenger a cleverly equivocal note to Consul Dominguez. "In that statement," he said, "the term 'Mexican General' was used in no way referring to the genuine Mexican generals who have shown ability and valor, but to the guerilla generals in Mexico, who for many years have infested that country to its detriment...