Word: wittedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...State's star witness against Defendant Carroll was Convict Dwyer, now 19, more pasty-faced than ever after eight months in a cell. On the basis of his sixth confession, a 17-page horror story told with flashes of incongruous drugstore wit, Special Assistant Attorney General Ralph M. Ingalls had reopened a closed case. The story: Barbara had told Dwyer of relations with her father to stop him from reproaching himself about her lost virginity; Dwyer taxed Carroll with it and the father threatened, bullied, finally accused him of making Barbara pregnant; when Dr. Littlefield, called in to examine...
...writings of Dane Coolidge have something of the flavor of an oldtimer's leisurely talk, in which personal reminiscences, anecdotes and tall tales are intermingled. A photographer of wild life long before candid cameras were invented, Coolidge wandered over Southwestern deserts, had the wit to pass up wild animals occasionally and photograph wild human beings instead. In 1903. when he was 30, his wanderings took him into the cattle country northeast of the Salt River Valley of Arizona, where he picked up some good stories, some better photographs. Arizona Cowboys is a belated record of his stay, a book...
...trend toward mysticism, which expressed itself in three smash hits (Our Town, Shadow and Substance, On Borrowed Time) as well as in some lesser fry. But all these plays, warmed by humor or pricked by wit, were far removed from the solemn fudge of the Servant in the House era, made neither God nor Death embarrassing. On Borrowed Time, though pleasant, was very likely the most overrated play of the season. But Our Town (the Pulitzer Prize play), despite a third act which got beyond its depth, squeezed so much honest feeling, poetry and humor into its first two acts...
What was modestly termed "your germ of laughter, your dash of tabasco and wit that will enable you to swallow your crumbs along with your oysters," was made available to an enthralled body of newsstand patrons yesterday afternoon...
Personally, Composer Offenbach was a Parisian among Parisians, a gay, bespectacled, cane-toting boulevardier, a wit, a capricious poseur. Musically, he was a past master of delightful superficialities. Published last week was his first adequate biography in English,* a carefully documented but humorless and solemn book by ex-Journalist Siegfried Kracauer...