Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...herself wants to write and spent last year completing a novel called Today is Tonight which has not yet gone to a publisher. Well aware of the part that decolletage has played in her career, she also knows that the personal accomplishment which Hollywood prizes above all others is wit and it distresses her sometimes to find that, however invaluable her sense of the comic may be on the screen, she rarely gets credit for it elsewhere...
Roly-poly Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff used Geneva for years as a soap box from which, with Jewish wit, he mocked the Great Powers for the hypocrisy of their peace diplomacy, noted that League of Nations proceedings often resemble fencing in the dark with pussywillows...
...into a love avowal, and ends as his fiancee after an interlude with Philip Reed, who symbolizes Princetonian youth. Accent on youth suffers less than most light pieces in translation to the screen, for, although its people sit around and talk a lot, they at least talk with wit. One funny situation occurs when Reed, not recognizing Marshall as his rival in love, begs him, as a playmaker, to devise a dramatic way for him to express his passion for Miss Sidney, and then proceeds to win her by completely disregarding the scene which Marshall has concocted for him. Another...
...contained implicit and explicit criticisms of modern society, the tales in Feliciana are casual and fragmentary, contain only marginal sociological comment. Some times Stark Young seems little more than a leisurely collector of old Southern impressions, exhibiting dissociated bits of conversations, rare historical items, with the polite, after-dinner wit of one displaying trophies of a hunt. Always contrasting feverish urban affectations with the contented days and rich histories of small Southern and Western towns, he finds humor, common sense and human decency characteristic of the provincials. His portraits of them would carry more conviction if occasionally human sweat...
...Wit Shapiro realize that the Navy's ''Generals" are Admirals-in-the-making. If a table were built for their miniature war games, they would still get waistline exercise (which they relish) because the table would have to be as big as the linoleum floor on which they now play. The games are played to scale. Each 1-ft. square of linoleum represents one square mile of ocean, or at most ten square miles, according to the problem...