Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barefoot boy hawking the Memphis Appeal & Avalanche about the dusty streets of his native Crystal Springs, Miss, seems to have deserted him. He still makes windy speeches outside Washington about "mah countree" and views Republican doings with "amaze-munt" but he is no longer the Senate's loudest wit...
...wit of John Barrymore's performance makes Topaze one of the most ingratiating comedies of the past year, as it is certainly the most cynical. Good shot: the Barrymore eyebrow's working above a handkerchief which conceals his mouth when Topaze has just downed his first cocktail, including the olive, in one gulp...
...once and meeting Actress Nell. Said he: "I kissed her, and so did my wife: and a mighty pretty soul she is." When she was 17 Lord Buckhurst gave her her first vacation from the stage; soon after, the Merry Monarch himself looked her way. Nell's cockney wit was never abashed by grand company. She made her royal lover laugh by saying that "he might be Charles the Second to the rest of his subjects, but that to her he was Charles the Third." (She had had two Charleses before...
...interpretative history of the last three years in the U. S., so that those who are still on the run may read. Calling his book a "fever chart," he plots the curves of recent U. S. public opinion, shows how it followed the swoops of economic graphs. Written with wit and wisdom. The Years of the Locust is a serious book not aimed at mental moppets, well worth a tycoon's time...
...Author Robert Nathan's urbanity there are as yet few signs of foppishness. Like a U. S. Anatole France (without the mordant bite of France's wit) he is both urbane and neat...