Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view of the fact that you once accused me in your columns of being "vinegary," and on another occasion labeled me as "a minor league wit," you will realize how it pains me to write this letter. Nevertheless your magazine over the last four weeks has been a major league triumph, and as a fellow craftsman in the black art of journalism, I must pay this tribute...
Doyle, 32 years younger than Cruikshank, reached his peak of delicacy and wit at 15, with the drawings for Dick Doyle's Journal and his letters to his father. When he was 19 "Dickie" went to work for the new, liberal magazine Punch, spiking the text with whimsical capital initials and borders of capering gnomes interspersed with knights in grinning visors. His Punch cover has survived to the present day, but Dickie himself, furious at Punch's antipapal policy, resigned in 1850 and turned to book illustrations which seldom matched his Punching...
...love him very much." She talked about her early life, said that her father was dead (she was misinformed-he was mining coal in Washington, Pa.) and showed reporters her engagement ring, a 1½-carat, square-cut diamond, set in platinum. Winthrop parried newsmen's thrusts with wit and a bridegroom's smile...
...days earlier, at an informal lunch at Washington's Press Club, Ike had been jaunty, relaxed, full of charm and wit. He realized, he said, that "in the last two weeks I've lost whatever news value I ever had," but he wanted to talk about a few things. And, he added emphatically, all his remarks would be "on the record...
When Duluth's temperature last week dropped to 25° below zero, it was thus saluted by a warm-blooded oldster, Manhattan Wit Franklin P. Adams. Temperatures were even lower elsewhere in the U.S.: at Montpelier Junction, Vt. it was 45° below, and Gordon, Wis. was almost paralyzed at 54° below. Most of the U.S., from the Rockies to the Atlantic and south to Texas, Louisiana and Florida, felt the severest cold of an extremely severe winter...