Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cynthia. For Lady Cynthia Mosley, fighting the New Party's battles last week meant standing up at mass meetings, giving as good as she got from hecklers of all the big parties, keeping her temper, sharpening her wit, pleading...
...play. Aside from her diction and a few unrestrained dramatics that were difficult to avoid, however, she turned in a creditable performance. Mr. Lunt assisted her with no great brilliancy, but as well as his lines would permit. And if the Court Fool was the epitome of Elizabethan wit and humor, "merrie England" is a euphemism...
...siin wit jart and vois...
...specific cause of the apathy toward debating is the exclusive choice of political subjects, topics which often afford more opportunity for matching statistics and specious "debating points" than for matching careful thought, fine language, and ready wit. The discussion of subjects in the fields of fine arts and history as well as in politics would tend to draw more, and perhaps abler, men into debating and to arouse general undergraduate interest...
Moscow guffawed privately, took a dead serious official view. Pravda, official news-organ of the Soviet Regime, demanded that the three circuit court officials be recalled to Moscow, tried and severely punished "for making the State appear ridiculous," for not having had the wit to know that Dictator Stalin, whatever else he may do, does not order sparrows "kept ready...