Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words and the jargon of high finance. It is this talk, almost as much as his demonstrated ability, that has created the Baruch legend. No man can hear him and go away poorer, for the tall old man has a Lincolnian sense of the humanities, a tolerance enriched with wit...
...Very Very Southern." Stark Young is known to his friends as an ardent garden er, a collector of objets d'art, "a character, " a wit and a superb teller of un printable stories. He was born in Como, Miss, in 1881. Papa Young was a doctor who, says Stark, would have preferred the role of Southern planter of which the Civil War deprived him. Mama Young was ''very very Scotch, and very very Southern." Stark Young, as his romanticism and rhetoric show, is pretty Southern him self...
Last week, a bit nostalgically, with the old flashing wit, venerable G.B.S. relived those early days-and almost forgot that he was reviewing G. D. H. Cole's Fabian Socialism for the London Tribune...
There is much fine Technicolor and court pouf-pouf. But pretty Lucille Ball needs a voice; Cabaret Comedian Zero Mostel in his screen debut seems to need an intimate audience; Tommy Dorsey's band needs fewer powdered wigs and more good tunes to play. A characteristic flight of wit is a non-Porter song which runs: "No matter how you slice it, it's still Salome...
...boldness of Nelson, without that hero's flamboyancy. His voice is so loud that he has no need for bull horns in battle. His eyes have a mariner's sadness, but he has plenty of wit. His pleasure is the sailor's hobby, gardening, and his hero is a fiery Scot, James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, one of the most colorful fighters, and a vigorous poetaster, of the 17th Century. His principal indulgence is the sending of very British dispatches, and in those dispatches lies the flavor of both A.B.C. and World War II in the Mediterranean...