Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharp-profiled Rev. A. (for Arthur) Powell Davies, 44, is a man who is heard. Every Sunday his congregation* at the chaste, red brick, All Souls' Unitarian Church overflows from the church auditorium into adjacent halls and recreation rooms. Reason: his 35-minute sermons are protein-rich with wit, wisdom, sincerity and invective. His preaching has made Welsh-born Powell Davies one of America's outstanding liberal clergymen...
...crony, Cartoonist Ham Fisher, Flagg has a thorned rose: "He is so keen, so well informed; his wit is sharp and his imaginative humor is boundless-it is incredible that none of all this ever gets into his strip of 'comic stuff' called [Joe] Palooka...
...PLEASURE OF THEIR COMPANY (653 PP-)-Edited by Louis Kronenberger -Knopf ($5). Subtitled "An Anthology of Civilized Writing" this is a connoisseur's selection of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, in which "urbanity, irony, elegance, skepticism, sophistication, wit, play a leading part." Twenty-one' polished pieces by Petronius, Lucian, Voltaire (all of Candide), Saint-Simon, De Maupassant, Congreve, Pope, Henry James (all of Washington Square), Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Henry Adams, etc. Excellent choices, in a finely printed volume...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Egypt (TIME...