Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord! How beautiful they be, Nothing in nature is unbeautiful even unto to the flake. See here a form of a star-which comes from a low cloud, I am told;-see here a tabular form-from high cloud;-see here little gems which man with all his wit could never make as beautiful. I am glad at my heart this day to enter into what Job hath well called "the treasure of the snow...
...Century. Which is to say it amounted to nothing. She looked at the world and explained it in terms of the pet theories of a few fashionable authors. For instance, she sincerely believed that every man had been in love with his mother when he was a child." His wit has plenty of vinegar: "It is a great mistake to place unlimited confidence in the malice of man. They seldom do us all the harm they might...
...Ghost Goes West (London Films). Rene Clair's first film in English, made at Alexander Korda's London studio from a screen play by Robert Sherwood, is a satiric fantasy notable for the qualities of grace, charm and imaginative wit that have long distinguished its director's work in French. Produced by a Hungarian, written by an American, directed by a Frenchman, and acted by an English-speaking cast, it has the homogeneity of style, the smooth polish often conspicuously lacking in its Hollywood counterparts. Its most serious fault is an occasional lethargy of pace, which...
...high register into the booming basses of our choral organization. However the problem seems to have been solved. some decision must have been reached, although it smacks to us strongly of coercion. We leave it up to the reader to pass judgment. The cause for our concern is to wit, a notice issued to the Glee Club which reads as follows: "Notice: Rehearsal tonight at 7:30. All men and tenors...
Leaving the White House four days before his 78th birthday, Virginia's Senator Carter Glass spied slim, boyish-looking Associated Pressman Francis Marion Stephenson reaching toward a snowpile. As quick of arm as of wit, Senator Glass picked a chunk of icy snow off the running board of his car, heaved it accurately at "Little Stevie," jumped in the car. Chortled he: "I landed a good...