Word: wits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must to all new Cabinet mem bers, a press conference came last week to Postmaster General John Gronouski. He showed himself to be an amiable fellow with a ready wit. Asked what he thought of third-class mail, he replied: "It doesn't send me most of the time." Gronouski, it turned out, was just trying to be funny, but soon the Post Office Department was swamped with protests. Gronouski was taken into a huddle by his public relations adviser, and his sense of humor has now been stamped HANDLE WITH CARE...
...LOUIS XIV, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the eighth volume of their massive study of Western civilization, the Durants describe with wit and a wealth of anecdote an age preoccupied by the confrontation between rationalism and faith...
Bruce was one of the few writers around TIME who never took off his coat. He had a wonderful wry wit, but some of his best lines will never be known; he murmured them so quietly that nobody heard...
...Little Mary Sunshine to a lot of deadly nightshade. Sunshine was a mildly pleasant little spoof of bygone musicals featuring red-coated forest rangers. Gypsy is an ornately boring take-off on woebegone musicals starring mythical Balkan kingdoms. Besoyan is about as creative as a coroner, and his flaming wit conceives ashy dialogue...
...born in Austin, Texas, received his A.B. at the University of Texas in 1929. No matter where he traveled or what he did, "V.O. never lost his Texas upbringing and the salt and wit that goes with it," said Price. "To add this to his scholarship makes him a friend and colleague who will be deeply missed and never replaced...