Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warrior of Wit. Too many generals lack wit. Indeed the quality is thought fatal in a military man, or policeman. But General Obregon's buoyant, spontaneous wit bubbled at convivial moments like champagne-to which he was not addicted, being an advocate of temperance, not prohibition...
BAMBI-A Life in the Woods-Felix Salten-Simon and Schuster ($2.50). Painful in the extreme are animals that talk. Among long-standing exceptions are Aesop's menagerie with their impressive wit, and Br'er Rabbit with his ingenuity. Boasting no such qualifications, Bambi, straightforward story of animal life, is nevertheless another worthy exception. And though the story will also be read to children, the Book-of-the-Month Club has offered it to its subscribers, adults. For aside from interesting data on wild animals (which, not being the very wild animals of Safari, will...
...Actress. Back in the days when there were no rackets, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero wrote a play called Trelawny of the Wells. Its wit was distinctly of the lavender variety. Its entrances and exits were deftly manipulated amid fluffy excitement. A year ago, George C. Tyler revived it on a Manhattan stage with 83-year-old Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, John Drew, Pauline Lord. People loved it, forgot about it and flocked to the new musical comedies. Now it has been made into a film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and called The Actress. The director, Sidney Franklin, has handled it tenderly...
Greatest of living Greeks is Eleutherios Venizelos, a nimble old man of ready wit. Recently he emerged from self imposed retirement on the Island of Crete (TIME, June 4), announcing with serene egotism: "I shall resume the Prime Ministry...
...well-dressed gentlemanly fellows of unimpeachable manners, who speak such painfully correct English and are such easy prey for the low buffoonery of their companions ... it is one of the laws of human drama that this should be so. ... The crowd likes nothing better than to see a half-wit get the better of a pompous intellectual. It restores confidence as it were." When he is in a tight fix, Mr. Interlocutor blandly and sonorously announces a rendition by our silver-voiced tenor, or an original specialty by our own little Mr. Tambo...