Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interpreted this announcement as a notable "reaction" to the President's speech. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Indeed, the Navy Department was at pains to explain that it was merely repeating what it had said since the international naval disarmament conference of 1922, to wit, that, within the agreed capital-ship limit, the U. S. Navy should be kept 100% efficient...
...countries are learning Latin and arithmetic. "There might have been no Great War in Europe had the nations played with balls of leather instead of balls of lead." When George II had spoken, that distinguished Spanish man of letters Professor Salvador de Madariaga rose and presented with serenity and wit the case for esthetics. By the decisive vote of 286 to 237 the Oxford Union balloted that vernacular George II had lost the debate. Were George II Roman Catholic, in stead of Greek Orthodox, his remarks would have deeply offended the many Roman Catholics who know that His Holiness (once...
...rather than artist that Mr. Wells wishes to be known. Student of chemistry, physics, biology, his scientific mind repeatedly comes to the rescue of emotions that have been too quick to accept a new theory. Honest, he is not afraid to satirize opinions he himself has passionately held. His wit is sharpest when he is in a temper (in person or in print), but he is a good listener and efficient host-unusual virtues for a man of genius. At 62, his intellectual vitality is almost equalled by his physical energy-his father was a professional cricketer...
...luncheon yesterday at the Union attended by over 100 members of the University, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for the Presidency bitterly attacked the Republican and Democratic parties as "the double-headed party of big business". With sharp sarcasm, keen wit, and scathing mockery he discussed the campaign, the issues at stake, and the candidates, from Republican to Liberal...
...Ireland, me lad-it was always a wailin' and a weepin' country. Hearts full of the great sadness and stomicks empty of food-fools prayin' to God, and starvin' on their knays. Ireland at its bist was a hard country-we lived wit the pigs and the geese-we petted thim an' thin we ate thim." Grandfather Tully lived through the Great Famine "a-suckin' the wind and drinkin' the rain on the bogs,'' then migrated to Ohio there to continue his ditching, peddling, champion drinking, yarn-swapping. Whether...