Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explained the fact that his father-in-law had refused to testify at his trial and fled to Europe by suggesting that that relative might have been in cahoots with the grafting contractors. "I have tried for years," he concluded sadly, "to get a hearing before all the wit nesses died, as they now have." The official record of Carter's case occupies 55,000 pages in the archives of the Departments of War and Justice. Senator Duffy reserved decision...
...shrewd young priest who is sent to the provinces to prevent a scandal in the Church. An aging Bishop has foolishly lent his prestige to a shady business deal, and Mionnet, authorized to settle the question, makes friends with the Bishop's enemies, conducts himself with circumspection and wit until his landlady's daughter proves a sufficient attraction to make him break his priestly vows. Occasional chapters, inserted between these two major developments, carry forward the stories of Gurau, the deputy, who breaks with his mistress, and Jallez, intellectual friend of Jerphanion, whose love affair with a married...
...nicknames as for their physical strength, Ozark members of the U. B. F. are known to friends and relatives as: Tar Pole, Buck Foot, Dough Belly, Goofy, Little Creamy, Big Bugs, Hard Head, Red Wing, Kraut, Fuzzy, Biscuits, Ivan Tomcat. "Joe Chickie'' Browning is now a bank president, "Half Wit" Browning, a Harvard graduate...
...gave homespun Rhymester Edgar Albert Guest a long-term contract with Universal Pictures Corp. On the basis of a single screen test, "Uncle Carl" bubbled: "I look upon Mr. Guest as one of the great film stars of tomorrow. He is a leader in the field of modern American wit, vision and understanding. He knows American minds, hearts and homes...
...LINCOLN LEGEND?Roy P. Easier ?Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). An attempt to separate Lincoln the Man from Lincoln the Myth; interesting description of the growth and development of some of the tall tales of Lincoln's kindness and wit...