Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there will probably be many attending the Convention who will want to have their fling in New York. Being strangers here, they will be ready to pay. Whether they will have to pay through the nose (i. e.?dearly) depends on two factors, to wit...
Moses, trim and aggressive, occasion ally unleashed his lightning wit, or gave a neat whip cut across the flank of an attacking Democrat. Smoot, the Mormon elder, tall and slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall...
...with flippant irrelevancies, that this time they are in deadly earnest, writing a sure-enough mystery story. But after they have you almost convinced, their deft fingers begin poking around into the defenceless ribs of the plot, and it all ends in roaring farce?a glorious melange of wisdom, wit, suspense, absurdity...
...Hair, Ready Wit...
...before. So, too, has the fact of human nature that there are many men to whom the trick of writing a good examination must-always remain a mystery. There, of course, lies the first unfairness. Give me for a few hours a man who has a certain natural wit; and I can teach him enough blue-book "fricks" to guarantee him as pass over the man who knows his work thoroughly, can speak it and ever use it to advantage, but cannot write it as the correctors of blue-books would have it written. And I have written and corrected...