Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps too much to expect accuracy and comprehension of subject in keyhole reporting, but at least fairness to the dead might be hoped for. The omission not only left TIME'S item without point but withheld credit from a writer whose wit and insight had compressed volumes into a single incisive sentence, which illuminated the murky economics of the time like a flash of lightning...
Warm State Department friends as the New Deal began were bald Mr. Bullitt and John C. Wiley, able career man renowned for his grave wit. Both wifeless, they were the liveliest members of the U. S. delegation to the London Economic Conference whiled away many a happy shipboard hour dancing with the delegation's young stenographers. When President Roosevelt made Friend Bullitt first U. S. Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Friend Wiley went along as Counselor of Embassy. Then came a rift in the diplomatic comradeship. Counselor Wiley married a Polish sculptress named Irene Baruch. Relations...
...monarch of the Restoration, wanted everybody to have a good time and when Dryden fumed at "the steaming ordures of the stage." The Country Wife is generally conceded to be the best of William Wycherley's four major comedies. It holds up dullness as the worst of sins, wit as the greatest virtue. If it preaches anything at all, it is that sex is, at bottom, a laughing matter. The play was revived on Broadway by Augustin Daly, in a heavily bowdlerized version, 52 years...
Twenty minutes before the curtain rose last Saturday night on his current production "Tonight at 8.30", Noel Coward, arch-wit and epigrammatist of the English and American stages, was made an honorary member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Dramatic Club, backstage at the National Theatre in New York...
...than a gold mine for perspicacious scholars and philologists. In it, for the first time, we find slightly gross incidents, evidently too perturbing for the delicate tastes of former Victorian editors. New light is shed on Boswell's simple, superstitious nature, and Johnson gives us more logic and heavy wit. There is, perhaps, no better account of life in Scotland around...