Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KISS ME," a figure of blindfolded Justice saying "Oh. my!" in an attitude of dancing, a large stein of beer labeled "Oh, boy!." and the legend. "Don't you know you're being ridiculed?" Mrs. Warren's library includes a set of "The World's Wit & Humor...
...pretty wit coupled with breath-taking brilliance in dialogue are Mr. Sherwood's prize possessions, displayed to perfection in "Reunion in Vienna." Let Molnar look to his laurels
Pace, local color and wit are the proper ingredients for comedies like Blessed Event. It has some of all three and a series of minor episodes proper to a picture which treats Broadway as the heart of the world. When a pressagent offering a reporter whiskey says: "It's been analyzed," the reporter (Frank McHugh) says: "Lots of things are analyzed that I wouldn't want to drink." Good shot: Lee Tracy swallowing his profanity for the benefit of Tsar Will Hays when he says, "I wish to God I'd never done...
Goebbels. Offsetting the ousting of Gumbel, the Hitlerites had their quickest wit, their loudest mouth closed up for a week. By government order Der Angriff, Nazi organ, was suppressed for "inciting to disobedience and resistance against the State." Editor of Der Angriff is Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, a gnomelike little man with a tart tongue and a club foot, who appeared from nowhere about two years ago, rapidly rose to be Fascist deputy, editor of the party organ and one of the right-hand men of Adolf Hitler. Herr Hitler attended Dr. Goebbels' wedding last winter. Fortnight ago when...
Meantime he had wormed his way into aristocratic salons of the Faubourg Saint- Germain, gradually built up a reputation as a man of fashion, a wit, a beautiful talker. So great was his renown and his care for it that when he entertained at dinner he would eat beforehand so that his tongue could wag undisturbed. His entrances were timed strategically: just as a gathering was preparing to break up Proust would enter, set the room abuzz with his rapid-fire monolog: "Do you know whether the Due de? stayed on in the boudoir with Mme Z? Could you explain...