Word: wisecracker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much, but the president and the students are wonderful." When he prepared to testify before a committee of the Illinois legislature (after Drugstore Tycoon Charles Walgreen had charged that his niece was being taught Communism at the university), Trustee Laird Bell offered to pay Hutchins $25 for every wisecrack he didn't make...
According to an old wisecrack, "Unitarians believe that there is, at the most, one God." Last week, in the Unitarian monthly Christian Register, 17 Unitarian members tried to say a little more clearly, and a little less cleverly, exactly what the nation's 75,000 Unitarians do believe...
...could be sure the word Wada used was "concern." Said lean, bitter Survivor Montgomery: "I consider myself pretty much of an authority on Mr. Wada's English expressions. We called them Waddisms." The court also got superlative evidence of the American soldier's ability to wisecrack. Through parched lips, American prisoners had muttered: "Wada, Wada everywhere, and not a drop to drink...
...stories sent out were fairly rude to the hosts. A special teleprinter was set up at the Moskva, and some stories cleared to the U.S. in only two hours, instead of the usual seven or eight. A New York Times correspondent tested the new freedom with a wisecrack: "Russian hospitality has seen to it that Moscow is cleaned up like a Dutch kitchen-or as some cynics say, like a Potemkin village."* The censor just waved the copy by. As an added coal of fire, the censor got off an enthusiastic note to the Gannett papers' Cecil Dickson, congratulating...
...Edgar Hoover as a cruel example for your humor, with no regard for the truth, was inexcusable. Your apology was less than frank. Public cynicism toward the press no doubt stems from the fact that papers like TIME, when departing from truth in order to wisecrack, are disinclined to make the apology as broad as the original insult; thus you compound the evil. As friend and attorney for Mr. Hoover I write to say that your crack could have no result but to undermine the standing of J. Edgar Hoover as a unique, law-enforcing official, one who has impressed...