Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What a lot of fun TIME'S critics would miss if artists did not entertain them with their serious work. With what penetrating wit these specialists observe that Martha Graham's Frontier (TIME, Jan. 10) is, after all, but a fence-act; that modern dance numbers when repeated become hash; that drums that accompany the modern dance are thumped and oboes tootle...
...bank and general store in its Negro settlement of 300, a fortune estimated at $100,000 and a colored baseball te?m. He lives in Memphis in the height of comfort. Credit for all this worldly success, Negro Claybrook, who never went to school, ascribes to his "mother wit...
Died. Edward J. Cattell, Si, onetime novelist (The Mills of God, To the Healing of the Sea), latterly a portly, bewhiskered Philadelphia wit; in the Manufacturers and Bankers Club, in the Broad Street window of which he had become a permanent fixture, waving to all who passed. Short time before he had said: "When I see a pretty girl and don't look twice, it'll be time to call the Coroner...
...promisingly as a tale of revolutionary adventure and buried gold in Mexico, soon turns into a monotonous thesis novel in which the principals form a new international order, build a retreat financed by the buried gold, debate communism, fascism, religion with Aldous Huxley's pacifism, little of his wit...
...Royal Aeronautical Society. In his Who's Who entry, Colonel Moore-Brabazon lists his recreations as "golf, tobogganing, yachting." Last week he was engaged in another kind of recreation which took the form of a very pleasant altercation-not only typically British but typical of the well-ballasted wit of the man of science anywhere-with Professor Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, F. R. S.. F. Inst. P., D. Sc., Quain professor of physics at the University of London, editor for physics of Encyclopedia Britannica, author of The Structure of the Atom, The Atom, The Mechanism of Nature...