Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final episode makes one of the screen's most refreshing matches-Paul Douglas as a hard-boiled big shot and Linda Darnell as the beautiful but shrewd shopgirl who outmaneuvers him into matrimony. Filmed with wit and insight, their courtship is the classic duel of man's will and woman...
...with the bad boys, led by W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender, who had set out to purge the English soul of bourgeois stodginess and English poetry of romantic fripperies. The English soul remained pretty much undented, but poetry did get a badly needed injection of vitality and wit from Auden & Co. MacNeice did his part by writing broad barrel-organ lyrics...
When the SPCA said that disposing of the owl was against God's law, I presume they had in mind Isiah 34: vs. 14, to wit...
...conversation Degas could be "sparkling and unendurable, enlivening the dinner-table . . . with wit, terror and gaiety . . . exhibiting all the characteristics of a most prejudiced intelligence." But when the bachelor grew old and blind he used to lapse into terrible silences, broken by the words "I think only of death!" At 70, 13 years before his death in 1917, Degas told a visitor that "One must have an exalted idea, not of what one does, but of what one will some day accomplish. Otherwise there is no use working...
Light Up the Sky is more harsh than funny. It has very little wit-its long suit is billingsgate; and its most valuable asset is the malice displayed by everybody (and not least by the author*). At the end Mr. Hart has all his characters behaving beautifully again, and even implies that show folk are all just high strung screwballs anyway. It is a little as if, having blurted all the unpleasant truths he could think of, Mr. Hart blandly winds up with: "It was all just a joke; I didn't really mean a word...