Word: wittedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Judicially stretching his indignation over the whole subject of legislative investigations, Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out that investigating committees act as both prosecutor and judge; put men on trial with no advance knowledge of the charges against them, no right to be represented by counsel, to call their own wit nesses or to cross-examine their accusers; operate with no procedure, no rules of evidence, no court of appeal, no jury ex cept the newspaper-reading public. "What should be proposed," boomed he, "is that Legislatures cease to regard themselves above the law, above the rules of equity and justice...
...handling during birth the physicians enthusiastically rose and cheered him. Injured in that way. Dr Carlson was once obliged to wear boots oversized pants and slipover sweaters be cause his unruly hands could not lace am button his clothes. People treated him a an idiotic cripple. Eventually his innate wit and grit took command of his muscles He went to Princeton, to Yale, opened clinic and two private schools for treatment of the defect (TIME, May 30, 1932) The basis of treatment, Dr. Carlson saic in Detroit last week, is the removal of fear and shame from the cripple...
...This be the best show I have seen in a long time. Lord, what speeches! The Student Council presents a worthy resolution but its speaker, upon questioning, says he knows nothing about the business! A pretty blot for the record! One law school professor thrills the audience by his wit and arrogance, but it seems to me, any sober judge would say he made a monkey of himself; and did no more good for the cause than the speaker who opposed the Oath by pleading he was a father of three children, and spilled blood for democracy...
...Summer (by Samuel Nathaniel Behrman; Theatre Guild, producer). Like George Bernard Shaw, another regular contributor of wit & wisdom to the Theatre Guild, Playwright Behrman is no longer called upon to concoct a full-fledged drama every time he has assembled enough conversation for a three-act play. Therefore an informed playgoer seldom expects to find great vital issues being wrestled around a Behrman drawing room. What he does expect is a series of sage, civilized and exhaustive discussions on Problems of the Day. This he gets in full measure in End of Summer...
...sinister but fascinating mental healer, Osgood Perkins has never had better lines to wrap his tongue about. He begins with the observation that "Maine is a masculine Riviera." He progresses to Bismarck's solution of the Irish question, to wit: send the Irish to Holland, the Dutch to Ireland. The Dutch would soon make Ireland a garden. The Irish would soon forget to mend the dikes. Finally he reaches the heart of his cynically expedient philosophy by recalling that he started out as an eye-ear-nose-&-throat man, but soon shifted to psychiatry because "the poor have tonsils...