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Word: wits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grace. To John William Davis went the convention's honors for gracefulness. As his party's last, unsuccessful nominee, he had to mount the rostrum to resign his titular leadership of the Democracy. He did so with a smooth blend of wit, modesty and loyalty to the new Nominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Platform | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Italy the Treaty of Nettuno (TIME, June u). That document would facilitate the "peaceful penetration" by Italian colonists of Dalmatia, which is adjacent to Croatia, the part of Jugoslavia from which Stefan Raditch hails. For three years Croat Raditch has blocked the treaty, driving the Jugoslav government to their wit's ends, since they are under heaviest pressure from Signor Mussolini to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Throwback to Assassination? | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...Enforcement. "We reaffirm the American Constitutional Doctrine as announced by George Washington in his 'Farewell Address' to wit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Grand Old Platform | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Except for the wit of his gymnastics, his was not an usual case of arthritis. Doctors know very little about the disease. Yet the Romans suffered from it, by the knobby bones of their skeletons, and the Greeks, the Egyptians, even the Stone Age men who lived in French caves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Swollen Joints | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Margaret Anglin, 52, as a lady of wit and leisure, indulged herself and the audience with such wisecracks as "Her teeth are like the Ten Commandments-all of them broken." For once, an all star company seemed as good as the sum of its parts and the play creaked seldom as it rolled rapidly across the stage. Among the stars were: Frances Starr, 42, Cecilia Loftus, 51, Jacob Ben-Ami, 38, Rollo Peters, 45, Helen Gahagan, 27, Georgette Cohan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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