Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faculty was excellent, and the students were advised to choose their courses by professors as much as by subject matter. William James was an instructor in physiology (NOT psychology), while James Russell Lowell taught English poetry. Informal discussions were initiated in order to bring the students into closer contact wit these figures...
...Wit-Snapper Arthur ("Too Fat") Godfrey, CBS's earlybird disc jockey, spotted an unexplained washing machine in his studio one morning last week, casually gave it away to a woman in the studio audience. CBS's Winner Take All, which had been storing the washer in the studio, promptly cried thief. Grumped Godfrey: "That'll teach 'em to keep their junk off my show...
Silent Orator. Charley wrote first drafts* for many of Roosevelt's fireside chats. From his littered desk, speeches poured out through a hundred throats. Senators and Cabinet members provided the name and the larynx, Charley the words and the wit. The Republicans cursed him, called him "the puppet-master" and "the greatest silent orator in America...
...driver. For more than six decades he had displayed them to countless scholars and students, and not all of them were quite sure of what they saw. Nevertheless, Whitehead's wares had a wonderful reputation. On a platform and in his parlor, Whitehead's wit and wisdom were displayed most effectively. And when he put his style to it, he could write with crystalline clarity and poetic insight. But "getting me from my books," he once observed, "is not so much dangerous as unlikely...
...short of the old I-am," he explains. "When I get mixed up with Nunnally Johnson or Herman Mankiewicz or Ben Hecht, I am struck dumb. I feel more comfortable in front of a camera." Actually, the very sound brain in his head doesn't run either to wit or to highbrow intellectual discussion. Alfred Hitchcock has said of him that he is probably the most anecdoteless man in Hollywood; it does not come natural to him either to tell anecdotes or to inspire them. David Selznick has called Peck the best-informed actor in Hollywood, which is probably...