Word: wits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sergei Mikhailkov is a big, blond, young Soviet wit who writes for children. Some months ago he began writing fables. Last week, in Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta, he devoted his twelfth fable to one of the Soviet Government's constant worries-the effect of foreign scenes and ways of life on Red Army men. Wrote Mikhailkov...
...first, despite his good looks, wit and charm, it seemed that there would be no prize for young Fitzgerald. His girl broke their engagement because he had no money. At 21, he felt passé-"God! How I miss my youth!" he wrote to his friend Bishop. Then, between jobs, he sat down and poured into This Side of Paradise the romantic memories of his happy college days. Within two weeks of its appearance, Fitzgerald had the cash not only to win back and marry his girl, but to enter the jazziest, gayest time of his life...
...them went Colonel Felix ("Snatch") Dupont's supply gliders (being used for the first time in the Philippines), loaded with pack howitzers, jeeps, radios and supplies. Over the flatlands at Luzon's tip the parachutists blossomed from their transports. Gliders slid into the high grass unopposed. Said wit nesses : like maneuvers on the village green...
Westbrook Pegler, most glowering of columnists, suddenly bared to his readers a gentle, wistful soul. Sourball Pegler confessed that he had found his "stock of merry jape and ready wit" quite low, and was "considering steps to correct this. . . ." Whether his boss (Hearst) had told him to get off his Johnny-one-note of hate toward labor leaders, foreigners and New Dealers, or whether Pegler had decided all by himself to change his tune, no one knew. Wrote Pegler...
...justice Britain's No. i traitor, William ("Lord Haw Haw of Hamburg") Joyce, 39. For the purpose, a British statute nearly six centuries old was dusted off. Joyce, charged the Court, "adhered to the King's enemies elsewhere than in the King's realm, to wit, in the German realm contrary to the Treason...