Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necessary shift of topic, becoming a well-executed, if occasionally heavy rehash of life on the farm. Composed of a series of magazine articles filled in with new material, the book does not show a continuous level of quality throughout. The older, more familiar chapters emphasize the bawdy wit of Perelman at his finest, while the latest material seems overly polished and forced...
...your piece on the recent visit of a group of Protestant clergymen to Yugoslavia [TIME, Aug. 25], you designated me as "anti-Roman Catholic editor of The Churchman, a gulliberal who says he is not a Communist fellow traveler." The implications to any intelligent reader are obvious, to wit: that I am an enemy of the Roman Catholic religion; that I am a babe-in-the-woods in intelligence and ability as an observer; that though I deny being a Communist fellow traveler, I am, in fact, at least tinged with red. I am an enemy of the Vatican political...
...midst of Britain's crisis, the Foreign Office ordered him back to the U.S. immediately. But he had come to Britain, protested Inverchapel, on important personal business: to acquire a wife and to exorcise a witch. The Foreign Office thought this a sample of the celebrated Inverchapel wit. It had hardly stopped chuckling before Inverchapel had accomplished both missions...
...When I was a child," said Eugene Delacroix, "I was a Monster." In time the monster grew a mustache and became famous for his wit, his dandyism and his fierce, flamboyant art, which now fills one-third of the Louvre's 19th Century tier of honor. But Delacroix's leaping, flesh-tearing lions, burning cities, shipwrecks and hard-riding Moors suggest that, being a true child of his age, he never quite outgrew his childhood. According to one of the painter's closest friends, Poet Charles Baudelaire (who also gave life quite a Peter Panning), savagery...
...defines himself as a parlor wit who thinks of radio as a parlor instrument ("some homes got them next to toilets"). But he seems hard-pressed to transport the highball-and-cigaret intimacy of his friends' living rooms into the U.S. parlor. His cement-mixer voice strains with eagerness to wow the audience. And while most of his parodies and songs are funny, the jokes which string them together sometimes clank (sample: "As for personal habits ... I ain't got none...