Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famed for biting wit since he went to Washington as one of Oklahoma's first two Senators in 1907, "Tom" Gore once remarked in the course of a debate on inflation: ''If cheap money is what the country needs, why don't we repeal the laws against counterfeiting?" Last week the white-thatched old statesman acknowledged defeat thus: ''The law of evolution is adapt or die, and I didn't adapt...
...French-speaking farmers. His father was a Canadian Supreme Court Justice, his mother's father a Quebec Lieutenant Governor. His family gave the Catholic Church a cardinal, and Premier Taschereau, like France's great 17th Century Cardinal Richelieu, has prodigious habits of work, a suave and barbed wit, a lean, aristocratic grey face, an iron will. Nevertheless, last week he paid a stiff price for the fatty degeneration 39 years of power had brought to Quebec Liberals...
Robert Frost has a foot in both camps. New Englanders who pride themselves on their conservative shrewdness and rock-bound individualism think they recognize him as one of themselves; and poets know he is a poet. His prosiest lines are often lifted into verse by some piece of sly wit or canny wisdom, and at its best his poetry is as strong and simple as his Vermont landscape...
...authentic but attractive. Old Man Roper, unregenerate patriarch, had fathered a rascally and shiftless brood. Thomas lived off in the swamp by himself, distilling shinny and drinking what he did not have to sell. Bart had not been improved by going to the War. He got a half-wit girl in trouble, killed her father and pinned the murder on her. Only decent ones in the family were Rachel, who took good care of Old Man Roper and her pining sisters, and Cully, her half-nephew, who liked engines, planned to be a mechanic...
...gadfly of successive Republican Administrations. Equipped with a deep, mellow drawl, a sharp Southern wit, the tall, loose-jointed Mississippian drew a laugh, scored a hit almost every time he rose to tease, tweak, twit and torment the party in power...