Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presence of fellow artists. Only in the half-world of Parisian cafes and dance halls did the Vicomte feel at home. Of these, from 1885 to his death in 1901, Toulouse-Lautrec became the greatest delineator. Strumpets, vaudevillians and circus performers admired him for his talents, acid wit and title, but they did not call him M. le Vicomte, or even Henri. Because the paunchy Prince of Wales (Edward VII) was the darling of Paris, because French gentlemen wore monocles and London clothes, and British music hall stars filled the stages, they called him 'Ennry...
...catlike and solitary, as he was artistic and amorous. . . . Feline . . . is the adjective most used to suggest his walk, his manner, his particular kind of acrid wit, his playfulness, his sulks, and, most of all, the voluptuousness that colored his whole relation to life...
...gainful occupation for the purpose of making an honorable living." Same day the Board of Special Inquiry, making a delicate distinction between her case and that of Countess Cathcart, excluded her not because of her amours but "because of an admission of a crime involving moral turpitude, to wit, assault with a dangerous weapon." Unless Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reverses the Board's ruling on her fellow working woman, Magda de Fontanges will be sent back to France this week...
Even in the midst of his affliction the outpouring of his verse continued, pure, strong-rhythmed, smooth-flowing and simply lyrical as no German verse had been before. The wit that had made him one of the century's greatest epigrammatists remained undiminished. When he made his will, leaving everything to his wife Mathilda, he stipulated that she must marry again immediately after his death. "In that way, I shall be sure at least one man is sorry I am no longer alive." Heine would have appreciated the joke which time has played on him. When the Nazi censors...
...friendly but overcurious natives with a blood bath, burned their village. Gonzalo with three others had the bad luck to be ashore when the natives returned to attack the ship, which fled for good. Only one of the four to escape, he lived in a cave until his quick wit and civilized gadgets awed the natives into accepting him as a reborn god. From then on his Eden-like life was complicated by nothing more serious than the easily outwitted jealousy of a native chief and by the natives' insistence that he take a beautiful 14-year-old girl...