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Word: wittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scripter-Producer Nunnally Johnson has a pleasant wit, but in this show, most of the time, it is only working in second gear; and at best, he is no magician. In simple justice, the question arises: Would anyone know, any better, what to do with a mermaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...designed as a sort of hollow painted sculpture. One of the liveliest was half-pot and half-owl. Picasso's pottery owed a great deal to archaic Mediterranean sculpture and ceramics, which represented beasts and gods in a similar bulging shorthand, but it also had a 20th Century wit and a deliberate lack of refinement that marked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: At the Village Fair | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Loyalty is the first page in Alben Barkley's book. In his 23 years in Congress, he dutifully voted as a party regular, was elected majority leader in 1937. No man was more popular with his colleagues. His good humor was legendary, his wit the Senate's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Loyal Catcher | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...observant. Other contemporaries recall a more vigorous Waugh-a young sport who, like Father Rothschild, rode a motorcycle and, like Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington, drank a good deal and was sometimes noisy in public places. He was conspicuously bohemian and agnostic and enjoyed baiting Roman Catholics, for his wit already possessed a fine cutting edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Knife in the Jocular Vein | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...Cassou gives an impression of both vitality and veracity. His macabre story is an up-to-date version of Romeo & Juliet, in which Juliet ("a nice, retiring person . . . the sort who hates being conspicuous") is put to shame by the amorous frenzy of Romeo. This tale teems with the wit for which France was once famed, and brings a genuine touch of comic relief to a world of despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gaul in Graveclothes | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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