Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brooks and Upton are the authors of the verses accompanying the pictures. Written in loosely romantic iambic couplets, with not a little keenness of epigrammatic twist to the tail, the verses stand in satirical, if not salacious wit, with the slim volume of sonnets issued last year by a New Haven bookseller...
...amazing bass voice. The same voice last year barked the Cambridge crew to victory over Oxford (TIME, April 21, 1930). Swartwout was Cambridge's first U. S. coxswain. Son of Manhattan Architect Egerton Swartwout, he went to Cambridge (Trinity College) seven years ago, became a wit, contributed to Punch. Also he developed the ironic humor that is the pride of English debaters. Last week Cox Swartwout argued...
Granddaughter of the late Senator H., daughter of Congressman William B., niece of incumbent Senator John H., Tallulah Bankhead inherited from her family a pungent rhetorical wit and an inclination to have people listen to her. After a short period of training at various convents, she went on the stage in Manhattan. Her reputation was just beginning to dawn when she left for England. She liked England and there was less competition there. Before long she was, to Londoners, the greatest U. S. actress. Bobbies had to give her an escort nightly from the stage door to her car. Because...
Could you tell me exactly whose "theory" you refute ... to wit: "that only three kinds of Dutch stories are news (bursting dikes, sly yarns of the fat Prince Consort, heartthrobs about Crown Princess Juliana...
Into the address which he was to read to the annual Associated Press luncheon in Manhattan this week, President Walter Sherman Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., largest corporation in the land, had the wit to put a paragraph which the Press would surely quote...