Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Literature as a literary critic. Novelist Budd Schulberg's pugilistic The Harder They Fall) wrote Critic Tunney, was "a vulgar book about vulgar people," but "very cleverly written." He read it twice, declared the retired champ: "I did not get the full significance of its gems of wit . . . until the second reading...
...Welsh town of Merthyr, an old man sits before a glowing fireplace. Aberdare Mountain rises just opposite the front porch and the River Taff flows by the back garden. At 79, old Jim Horner, sometime foremen at the Merthyr railroad station, is as clear of speech and keen of wit as ever. He is also as stoutly devoted as ever to his son Arthur, old Jim's pride and pain. Arthur has gone far since his childhood in Merthyr. Today he holds the fate of the nation in his clenched fists...
Sofia wired, with Bulgar bravado, that it could not be bothered with the continental recovery program because it had a more important matter in train, to wit: "[Bulgaria] has already begun the realization of her own economic plan...
...unhappily, the story is just a series of clumsy, apologetic scenes which hurry Miss Tierney across enough time to die a natural death and thus qualify for Captain Harrison's ghostly embraces. The film's whimsy is a bit heavy-handed and it is short on wit, style and ingenuity. Yet most of it is pleasant enough fun, and pretty to watch. Harrison, apparently modeling himself after Bernard Shaw as a boy of 40, sports a handsome beaver. Miss Tierney wears beautiful turn-of-the-century dresses designed by her former husband, Oleg Cassini; her acting is neither...
...like Tommy Gallagher, but a young Manhattan Irishman with a Fordham law degree and large horizons. With luck he will soon become an Assemblyman in Albany, and perhaps in time even sit in the big chair in New York's City Hall. He has brains, good looks, Irish wit and good Tammany connections...