Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disgusting! Our Army ought to be ashamed of itself!"* Last week a batch of grubby British "art" magazines set her off in public. Armed with a stack of them, she rose in the House of Commons and touched off one of those exchanges which a British wit has called "Asterisks...
...bagpipe skirled in all Ireland, said dispatches; Dublin pubs were shuttered. Quarantined Eire wore her shamrocks grimly. But in the U.S. the transplanted Irish kept St. Patrick's memory green. The customary twist was given the British lion's tail. Parades, pageants and Irish wit decorated...
...Irish wit-and wisdom-came notably from Fordham University's president, the Very Rev. Robert I. Gannon S.J. Said he: "The world needs Ireland. The world needs De Valera. For no matter what else he is-and he has his faults-he is a man of principle-and hence a most conspicuous figure in international affairs...
...successively a Washington reporter, Belgian and Russian correspondent, European graduate student, U.S. college professor (Antioch, 1922-23), associate editor of the Baltimore Sun (1923-24). He discovered his talent for the affable packaging of intellectual pabulum with his Story of Mankind (1921). With a roughage of Dutch wit, a vitamin-content of "human-interest background," and doodled-over with his own pen-&-ink sketches, his The Story of the Bible, The Arts, Van Loon's Lives sold 6,000,000 in his lifetime...
...picture aerates a lot of its staleness with pace, surface wit, some crisp acting. As a henpecked satyr, Roland Young is still the alltime master of twiddle, the fatuous innuendo, the Britannic bleat. Fred MacMurray is an experienced cutup too. But some cinemaddicts may feel that Paulette Goddard is on the brink of overstatement when she exclaims: "Every time I see him I get weak in the knees...