Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herr Luther chances to possess more ability than wit. His enemies succeeded in making it appear that the Cabinet had taken a momentous decision detrimental to the Reich without consulting the Reichstag. Flustered, Herr Luther attempted to evade collision by announcing that he would postpone the execution of the flag order until August. Then, witless, he offered the ridiculous explanation that several months' time would be needed to communicate the order to German consulates in different parts of the world...
...this large face and figure advancing? That is Heflin, who used to be chief demagog of the Democratic party, but his voice seems to have grown tired, and Caraway, with his low sarcastic drawl, twits him. This neat little man is Moses, one of the Republican irreconcilables-quite a wit in his way. His speeches are usually short, a sentence or two, delivered from the back of the chamber. His barbed arrows used almost always to go straight to Achilles' heel, but they don't fly so fiercely as they used...
...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY -English wit and English polish in a story of some stolen pearls...
...nearest village school, presentably dressed and bearing testimonials to their character and ability from their last teacher. Tombino, large of girth, bright of eye and smile, possesses many of the good things of life and does not intend that his children shall be denied them through want of wit and learning. There is a boy of 17 who can con Vergil with any Etonian. A younger one-"Pedge" he was called-is bound for a medical career. He began by helping Tombino with the veterinary duties of the camp, and later-through Tombino's shrewdness and hospitality-acquired books...
...bust is placed outside a room where, 200 years ago, the midnight taper burned late, often and with great regularity. Young John Wesley, though "gay and sprightly, with a turn for wit and humor," was imbued with a deep purpose, and to accomplish it he systematized his living, and his friends' living, most strictly. They slept, ate, studied and discussed their aims on a time schedule so business-like that it drew upon them the ridicule of their irresponsible fellow Lincolnians. "Bible Bigots," they were called, "The Holy Club," and, for their ordered habits, "Methodists...