Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penny Wise. In Detroit, Theater Cashier Doris Trask dropped a penny, stooped to pick it up, straightened to discover that somebody had reached in her cage, snatched...
...time--a small amount, to be sure--it looked to the more optimistic Harvard like a reversal of last fall's Yale game. Their football team caught fire near the end of the half, moved to one touchdown both passing and running, and intimated that it was wise to Rutger's offensive trickery...
Publicity-wise and sophisticated now the little freckle-faced kid who liked to sing folk songs still finds audiences with her clear-voiced renditions of such ballads as "Melly Malone" and "Barbara Allen...
...said, replied: "Oh, one of those wise guys that carry a pocketfull of passes and think they can get away with anything...
Pritchett is most at home writing about the English tradition of picaresque heroes and prurient heroines. The 17th and 18th Centuries, he believes, produced literary techniques which later novelists have been wise to adopt. Smollett developed the physical realism and "chamberpot humor" which characterizes much of Joyce. Richardson introduced the "principle of procrastinated rape [which] is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers." Fielding, Pritchett says, is the granddaddy of them all: in his work the reader can not only "pick out the perennial characters of the main part of English fiction, but . . . many...