Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first at which seats for the course were assigned, and everyone promptly found their proper seats in the proper sections, guided by the directions chalked on the blackboard, LEFT--CENTRE--RIGHT. While Dr. Mather was chatting with his assistants before opening the mysteries of Geol. 1 Lecture 3 some wit authoritatively approached the blackboard, and changed the writing on the wall to RIGHT CENTRE LEFT. The first tremors of the quake were now felt. A hundred or more leftist students, eager for Change, girded their loins and marched through the CENTRE RIGHT. Simultaneously the stalwart reactionaries of the RIGHT goose...
...issue appeared to be the same Brutes and Brawn confection that has occupied Mr. Ryan's spare moments for years. But on page twenty of the issue which the Vagabond stole from his neighbor's doorsill there was an editorial dripping with the true sweetness and light. To wit...
Died. Edward Phocion Howard. 56. founder & publisher of the New York Press (turf weekly); of heart disease; at Saratoga, N. Y. Famed for his loud clothes, handsome manners, easy generosity and lugubrious wit. Publisher Howard had been a Senate page, a New York World reporter, a financial editor, an oilman. In 1916 he bought a racing stable, made a habit of attending every important U. S. race meeting, traveling in style whether flat or flush. In 1924 he started the New York Press in which, among racing tips, form charts, track gossip and ad- vertisements for ''advisory bureaus...
...trying to say and sententious when it finds the answer, No Marriage Ties nonetheless manages to make Bruce Foster an interesting individual. It was an inspiration to have H. W. Hanemann write dialog for the story. His breathtaking puns, doubtless conceived in the hope of making Foster seem a wit rather than an addlepate, are the best strokes in the portrait. When Foster wakes up with a hangover and finds a girl in his apartment, he says: "Women are all soul and men are all heels." Another one comes when he has replaced pajamas with a suit: "The leper...
Students in the summer school who have had little chance to see Shaw will enjoy this selection in which the Irishman arrays his wit against war and heroics, and points out that gold braid does not change human nature. When Captain Bluntschil climbs into the heroine's boudoir he does so over the hood of the truck which at night is effectively disguised...