Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rich friends; insignificant, he talks of the great; uneducated, he prattles of Shakespeare and quotes frightful Latin. Such men invariably fool some people; although he disgusts Mrs. Fisher (Helen Lowell) he wins the heart of her daughter Amy (Wintfred Wellington); and though the Fishers all think Amy a nit-wit to marry him. Piper proves, by his efforts to save their talented son from being swindled out of his rights as an inventor, that he is the best friend of the family...
...Oxford Union; N. A. Beechman, also an ex-president of the Oxford Union; and Major G. H. Howard, ex-aviator and a prominent member of the Union. The 1922 Oxford team, which invaded America for the first time, named M. Christopher Hollis, traveler, magazine writer and a recognized wit; Magbool Mahmood, member of a distinguished family of India and president of the Oxford University international assembly; and Edward Majoribanks, probable successor to Lord Tweedmouth, secretary of the famous Carleton Club, and president of the Oxford Union, one of the highest Oxford honors...
Oxonians Belle Slow English Wit...
...Secretary of State is a little man, and he is rather nervous in his manner. So the giants of wit and wisdom who wander among the concentric semicircles of desks in the Senate Chamber looked at him quizzically, and between the making of one law and the making of another dubbed him "Nervous Nellie...
...play a great love story. That it undoubtedly is, and as such must gain an inevitable and not unmerited popularity. But Mr. Arlen is not dealing in a new, smart medium as the world believes. It is love and sacrifice that makes The Green Hat good entertainment; not wit and glittering philosophy...