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Word: wits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I am approached by an eager acquaintance who asks, "Is it true your child resembles an elephant, Mrs. Tytla?" (with the same expressions, incidentally, as the gossiping elephants in Dumbo), I am compelled, like poor Mrs. Jumbo, to waddle off, as I mutter to myself, "A wit, no doubt." However, being fully aware of the havoc that can be wrought ... on an impressionable small child, I am appealing to you, as a mother, to right this terrible wrong. (Besides, we have no space left in which to store the tons of peanuts that continue to arrive daily.) Therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...Genoa. Of his own greatness Ezra Pound had no doubt; he named his son Homer Shakespear Pound, so the story went, "for the crescendo effect." Writers whom he had befriended included a grateful exile, James Joyce, and a sportsman, Ernest Hemingway. His letters, jaggedly typed, jumpy with execrations and wit, walloped out in enormous numbers, were avant-garde currency for 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Retirement | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...plot is, as usual, the least important of the ingredients. Instead, the subtle wit at which William Powell and Myrna Loy have become past masters serves to spice up a thoroughly amusing film. And even their happy marriage is still as palatable to audiences as it ever...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/23/1942 | See Source »

...upbraiding the quality of the bread. With Teutonic thoroughness, statisticians laboriously calculated that Cérilly had celebrated so many funerals that virtually every living soul in the village should be dead by now. Revealed at last was M. Guichard's sly scheme which had truly Gallic wit and practicality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: For a Small Fee | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Editor Herzberg's insulters extend in time from Job to Dorothy Parker, are grouped under such headings as Kings and Presidents, Scarified Statesmen; Scorched Politicos; Spite and Wit Among the Great; Whistlerisms; Sarcasm by Mail, Wire, and Cable. Some of the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Win Enemies | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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