Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Painful were these revelations to Tokyo's Mayor, popular Hidejiro Nagata, who with flying coattails has opened many a baseball game at Tokyo's Stadium in the Meiji Grounds, and who is a national figure, renowned for sturdy patriotism, sage wit. Though no slightest suspicion pointed at either Mr. Nagata or at any of his kin, he promptly scapegoated, announced his resignation as Mayor of Tokyo with this terse explanation, "I desire to embrace full responsibility...
...have not burst into flame. Discussing the university don in one of his aromatic essays, George Santayana says: "Yet dry learning and much chewing of the cud take the place amongst them of the two ways men have of really understanding the world--science, which explores it, and sound wit, which estimates humanly the value of science and of everything else." The educated man, whether he has been to college or not, comes ultimately to rely upon mother wit and his horse-sense. New York Times...
...entwined himself in the Hemingway toils that he is unable to escape. Further, he assumes that all the young readers of Mr. Hemingway have done the same, an idea, fortunately, somewhat fallacious. Many may regard the author of "Death in the Afternoon", as a fit subject for Thurber's wit; few conceive of him as worthy the emulation due the object of a popular "hero-myth...
...through, enjoying the comfortable, gouty advertisements, all of health bread or tyres, or Haig, all with the chorus, the eternal chorus, Made in England. The Vagabond settled more evenly in the luxuries which They Won't Be Able to Have When They Graduate and ran through the Charivaria. English wit, English witl He glanced once again at the little man on the ass, just beneath Mr. Punch on the cover, and buried himself in Lalage's letter. England, he was reassured, would muddle through...
...high box office rating and a salary to match, it will be a most extraordinary turn of events. His appeal is essentially neither sentimental nor simian. In an era when Hollywood's other successful matinee idols either beat their women or sing to them, he personifies grace, intelligence, poise, wit. Son of a British actor, Herbert Marshall fitted himself, at St. Mary's College, to be an articled clerk. He did so poorly at it that he was forced to go on the stage. Just before the War he played with Cyril Maude in Grumpy. Herbert Marshall has divided...