Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feelings must have been felt by a member of the Saltonstall family, who wrote to the Secretary for information in University Hall whether he was aware that the cough-drop shaped affair on the Dunster Gable was the mark of a spinster. To this the Secretary replied, with some wit, asking whether Mr. Saltonstall did not consider his Alma Mater a spinster...
...king, respondent in satin and silver and gold, peruked, armed with jeweled swords and dainty snuff-boxes, from which one was even then providing himself with a pinch while another recited to him an original couplet on the king's new mistress. They were a statesman, a wit, a playwright, a poet, a churchman, gorgeous figures...
Keats loved her at first sight. "The very first week I knew you, I wrote myself your vassal," he recorded. It was not for her wit, for he had more; nor for her money, since he planned to win their bread as a surgeon; nor for her beauty--"her nostrils . . . a little painful," he wrote, "her mouth is bad and good, her Profile better than her full face . . . her hands bad-ish, her feet tolerable." He did not even love her for her guile: they had many a tiff over a ball-room brave, and he reproached her with being...
...companies, belongs to such swank Manhattan clubs as Union, Metropolitan (where he lives) and Century. When he filed his civil suit against the Chase Bank, he well knew he was inviting the Government to prosecute. His argument in that suit will become his defense in the criminal action, to wit: 1) Congress has no Constitutional power to delegate its legislative authority over gold to the President; 2) the President is prevented by the 5th ("due process of law'') Amendment to the Constitution from depriving him of his property. The "property" in this case is not only the gold...
...have had good reason to feel pleased with the results of last week's deals in colyumists. He had conducted a quiet but more effective raid of his own: Westbrook Pegler, famed colyumist for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, whose "Speaking Out" has contained some of the most pungent wit as well as some of the best critical sports reporting in the U. S. for the last eight years, will start writing for the Scripps-Howard United Feature Syndicate two months hence...