Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skilled debater, with a ready wit that should serve him well in the rough & tumble of the House, Pearson steps at once into the front ranks of Liberal leadership. In this, he makes a striking parallel with his predecessor: St. Laurent was no politician when he entered the cabinet (as Minister of Justice) in 1941, and now he is moving into the Prime Ministry. Many politicians, citing the parallel, thought that Pearson might well travel the St. Laurent road...
...contemporaries who mount the novel as if it were a rostrum, Cary works in the major tradition of English novel writing. He tells a vivid story, creates characters as credible as if they were stepping on one's toes, and uses the English language with beauty and wit. Why he is not therefore a favorite on this side of the Atlantic is something of a mystery...
Died. Russell Maloney, 38, pudgy, chess-playing humorist (It's Still Maloney), onetime New Yorker wit, CBS critic ("Of Men and Books"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...mildly applauded in Paris, but stirred up an anti-Guitry demonstration in Lyon (TIME, June 7). On its own account, it is worth little fuss of any kind. It is a tribute, redolent of grease paint, to Sacha's famed actor father . Lucien. The son's brittle wit shows to best advantage when he is dishing out impudence, irony and disillusionment. This film suffers from an irony of its own: reverence and honest sentiment do not become M. Sacha Guitry...
Your article on Henry Wallace reflects the general attitude of the American voter, to wit, that this potential quisling is an amiable crackpot, and for an idealist who has been duped by the Communists...