Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left hand, the aged Hindenburg, almost 80, passed through the cheering throng, stopping now and then to say a few words to a former comrade-in-arms. He is grim, cool, calm, yet genial enough on occasion. Germans recall a story about their President that exemplifies his peculiar wit: One of his old friends is alleged to have asked...
...When they left the Cathedral, the moving picture men wanted Walker to feed the pigeons, since pigeons show up so well in a film, and the Mayor obliged, although pigeon feeding wasn't his home specialty." Slyly wrote the editors, fearing that gum-chewers might miss the delicate wit of this tidbit: "Our mischievous correspondent's inference seems too obvious for pointing." Over their rude insinuation against the Mayor of the largest U. S. city, they put an almost libelous tag: "THERE MAY BE A CACKLE IN THIS...
...other black eyes. Reason: Mr. Knauff had a cold. Mr. Glauber, promising a cure, stuck large porous plasters on Mr. Knauff's chest, back, abdomen. Mr. Knauff got well. Then Mr. Glauber peeled off the plasters, peeling off also Mr. Knauff's means of livelihood in a circus, to wit, a tattooed portrait of Abraham Lincoln (chest); assorted tattooed landscapes, ships, anchors, Uncle Sams (abdomen); nude females, South Sea Islanders, palms, boats (back...
...late Phoebe Apperson Hearst, daughter of a wealthy Missouri farmer. Famed for her beauty, kindness, wit...
...they had not been stirred since April 6, 1917. A pack of newsboys, coursing through the crowded streets at cinema time, were baying like gutter beagles, "UX-try, UX-tree-e! 'Clare War on Chine! M'rines goin' tuh Chine! UX-try! UX-tree! War wit' Chine...