Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remind your readers that Alexander had married an Asiatic mountain princess, Roxane. Little known, however, is their son, born after Alexander's death in 323 B. C. Emperor of the better half of the known world, a position he shared with Alexander's halfbrother, the half-wit Philip Arrhidaeus, the young Alexander might also expect to be deified like his father. He was not only born a king, but practically also a god. The enormous inheritance proved fatal. The regents fought each other, turned the empire upside down. In that cockeyed world no one was surprised when...
Pale, pop-eyed Erik Berggreen stood at the bar of a Swedish court last week charged with robbery, to wit: the theft of a number of watches, pieces of jewelry. As the evidence was reported, Swedish travelers for the past six months on the crack Norrland Express, between Stockholm and Narvik in Norway, tingled at the thought that they had been riding on a train driven not only by a thief, but by a madman...
...produced The Bachelor Father on Broadway but they offered a grave moral problem to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. That great organization rose brilliantly to the emergency, however; they changed the bachelor into a married man. The comedy has lost some of its pace, but the circumloquacious dialog has a certain wit and the whole pro: duction is filled with pretty scenery, pretty clothes. Marion Davies enjoys herself in a role that did not take much thought. Best sequences: the children remolding their father along modern lines...
Osbert Sitwell, polite writer, never prints an ill-bred remark, never lets his feelings run away with him. To many a critic he seems to lack the generosity of passion; but his chilly wit is often piercing. Of the playing fields of Eton he says: "But then one must remember, that which one did not realize at the time: education in Europe was, unconsciously, a preparation for death, not for life. Events proved it right. They died, as the saying goes, like gentlemen: which was the object of their education...
...becloud a plain issue like the requirements for scrubwomen's wages under the State law and to make it necessary for a group of sensitive graduates to raise by public subscription money which the university really owed to these workers cannot complain if its undergraduate humorists adapt their wit to an official indifference better described as "contemptuous" than "aristocratic...