Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Machado was less disturbed by Spring in Cuba than by Spring in his slow-witted brother Carlos. Carlos, 58, is a bachelor who loves cockfighting and cannot remember names. He has no wit, little education. He can read and write a little, does odd jobs for his brother, but gets into bullheaded trouble. A Cuban Senator, he thinks he wants to control the party machine of the Liberal Party of Santa Clara Province. Santa Clara's boss is now Juan Antonio Vasquez Bello, Machado henchman and brother of Machado's late good friend Clemente, who was assassinated...
...Before he was sent as U. S. Minister to Greece & Montenegro in 1909, he was publisher. His defeat for re-election to the Senate (where he served 14 years on the Foreign Relations Committee), his 64 hard-lived years, have not dulled George Moses' tongue or wit...
...Lafcadio Hearn knew Japan in the same way. Mr. Guedalia understands the implications of the Monroe Doctrine. He is careful to point out the advantages of the Argentine's economic dependence on Great Britain, which is best strengthened by the indulgence of the beef eating Englishman. In fact, his wit is considerably circumscribed because he is on an official commission, and is forced to limit his barbed wit to thrusts at the Damnyanke and the wily French. Because of these impediments to the Communication of sensations out of his own sphere, Sterne would call him but an inquisitive traveller...
Argentine Tango is in no sense as big a book as "Wellington." The material runs thin, and might even be called superficial, except that these travel sketches are always so well drawn and prove so diverting. Guedalla has not lost his sharp wit nor his ability to portray lucidly. He has done a competent piece of work with difficult and rather unsatisfactory material...
...corner of his mouth. But fatigue did not diminish the little Virginian's ardor of exposition. He admitted that there were sections of the bill that "shocked" him. Pointing to its anti-hoarding provision as "arbitrary," he said: "I don't know who there is with wit or wisdom enough to define hoarding...