Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentlemen not to be confused with Boston's traditional "sloppy dressers." In its first issue The Twelve Twenty-Five Express, advance Reunion pepsheet, last week published its estimate of the Class of 1912 long before the appearance of the autobiographical 25th anniversary report. Estimator was another ex-Lampoon wit, Humorist Robert Charles Benchley,* who proceeded to set down 1912's "Sobering Statistics": "In 25 years, the Class of 1912 has produced only one Bishop of Albania, or, at any rate, only one Bishop of Albania who later became Prime Minister.-j-"Only one member of the Class...
...with Hardy he is "somewhere in the desert" where he is supposed to own a silver mine or gold mine. He has two Lincoln Zephyrs and supercharged Ford, specially geared for high speed. He is about 33, 5 ft. 10 in 220 lb. He is built like a wrestler, wit tremendous hands, bulldog shoulders and biceps half again as big as Jack Dempsey's. His face is handsome, disposition genial. He can consume abnormal quantities of whiskey. He frequently stays up all night and recently did so five nights in a row. He is naturally soft-spoken and dislikes...
...life at the theatre, it has never been our experience to find ourselves "let down" by any Theatre Guild performance. "Pride and Prejudice" is no exception. It is bound to please, if you take care to discount in advance the wit of an earlier day and charge it up to atmosphere...
...moved to offer my congratulations by TIME'S achieving the impossible in outdoing itself. I refer to the Edward-Simpson resume in the Dec. 21 issue. For writing, for journalism, for wit, for rationality, it is, I think, unsurpassed in its field. I had become so fed up with the hysterical, pathetic, impassioned and - warped newspaper accounts of this now famous imbroglio that I've not bought a paper for several weeks...
...first time by his new bodyguard, Thomas Quakers, successor to Gus Gennerich-attended the semi-annual Gridiron Club dinner and show. There he and Alf Landon sat at the head table, both made satirical off-the-record speeches and newshawks to their surprise agreed that Alf Landon, in wit and composure, came off by no means second best as after-dinner speaker...