Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought of in terms of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, said he to himself and properties and photography will at last get their share of criticism. But this plan never worked out. With the first scene the reviewer is in the thick of a play which combines the brittle wit of Oscar Wilde with the mellow sentiment of "Der Kongress Tanzt." Old Vienna, with its archdukes and New Vienna with its psychoanalysts and yeast specialists. And in ten minutes the Lunt family is forgotten...
...much for Vienna, now for Robert Sherwood and his Broadway wit. This play offers more than sentiment and satire. It offers the quintessence of bubbling dialogue, refined repartee and waltzing love-scenes. It represents all the nuances and emotional fires which lie behind the less bourgeois legends, from Prince Charlie to Prince Mike Romanoff...
...delvin' into de subject of Prohibition, I digs up plenty of data- not disa and dat-a-but data, data. And what do I find out, I'm askin' you? I finds out that I didn't have anyt'ing to do wit' passing dis Eighteent' Amendment. ... I finds out dat none of my friends has anyt'ing to do wit' it. So I don't see how dey ever could have passed it in de first place...
...domestic wife, a too-infantile infant. Just as everything was going nicely, just as his latest flirtation was beginning to grow serious, his grown-up daughter turned up to plague him. At first he thought Lindsay a credit to him: she was not beautiful but she had charm, wit, sophistication, and she was on the verge of a big success in the musi-comedy world. They took to each other on sight, but Carl rapidly discovered his daughter was a little too clever for his comfort. It was bad enough when she trapped him into giving her unattractive young half...
Died, Wilson Mizner, 56, Klondike prospector, playwright, wit, manager of Boxer Stanley Ketchel, gambler, Florida land boomer (with his Architect Brother Addison), scenario writer; of a heart attack after six months' illness; in Los Angeles. To each of two nieces he willed $1 in cash, left the rest of his estate to "my friend, Florence Atkinson of Los Angeles," onetime cinemactress...