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Word: wits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marvelous sense of humor and has his tongue in his cheek at many things that happen in Washington. He is a good storyteller. I ought to know, for I've been listening to his stories since I was knee-high to a duck. And he has wit. His opponents have learned that and his friends have enjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Intellect | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

...strip have been trouping through the one-night stands. One of them has suddenly, and quite unaccountably, turned up in a Broadway theatre. Loud was the cynics' laughter. Manhattan will not endure for many nights a one- nightstand company dressed up in 42nd Street clothing. Both as to wit, music and performance the offering was generously condemned as the season's dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 13, 1925 | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

...Cheap Wit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 6, 1925 | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

...Siberia; all the nymphs of Birmingham, Nantucket, Joppa, Australia, Bangor and Iquique. Mr. Reed shows quite clearly, despite the dissenting opinions of the Messrs. Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett and Commissioner Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army, that the best Limericks have never, at any time, depended for their wit upon salaciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Limericks | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...unfortunate that the Lampoon spends all of its meagre talent on its special issues. The current number, for instance, the St. Patrick's number, though much less amusing than a magazine ought to be, where the vigorous and noisy wit and humor of youth should run riotously, is undeniably better than the numbers unadorned by Mr. Child's interesting covers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEWER FINDS IRISH LAMPY ABOVE AVERAGE | 3/20/1925 | See Source »

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