Word: wits
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What distinguished Weld as an undergraduate was his intelligence and keen wit, say friends who knew the 48-year-old Republican governor during his Harvard years...
...school, Romanski was an honor roll student with a wry, irreverent wit, which made him extremely popular...
Although Governor William F. Weld '66 came from a prestigious family, friends say he got along very well with the diverse, artistic population who lived with him. In Adams House. Weld is described as a brilliant mind with a sharp wit: he was a member and actor in the Hasty Pudding...
Although Governor William F. Weld '66 came from a prestigious family, friends say he got along very well with the diverse, artistic population who lived with him in Adams House. Weld is described as a brilliant mind with a sharp wit: he was a member and actor in the Hasty Pudding...
Middlemarch is a moral tale, but one told with frequently mordant wit. At the novel's center are two altruists whose yearning to serve others is frustrated in large measure by ill-advised marriages. Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey) is ward of her eccentric uncle Arthur (Robert Hardy), who is known as "the worst landlord in the county" for the shabby way he treats his tenants. Dorothea's desire to improve the lot of others leads her to wed the Rev. Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide), a scholar and cleric more than twice her young age. She is enraptured by his dream...