Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three other stories one concerns a frustrated pianist, and another a frustrated man who just sits in a cafe. The remaining story, by Miss Miriam Ginsberg, it is a pleasure to report, is humorous, and despite the very mild nature of its wit, her account of a girl's gym class seems practically uproarious when compared with the morose material which surrounds...
...Fred's father, "a kind of homemade wit," had a little joke of his own. As a 14th-birthday present for Fred, he marched him down to the Boston Public Library, put him to work three hours a night as a stack boy-at 20? an hour...
...Titus Moody (Parker Fennelly) is a whey-voiced, ding-this-and-dang-that farmer with a wit hot off the general-store stove. Is his wife happy? "I don't pry into her business none." Titus' farm is "somethin' like Communism. Nobody's got nothin', but everybody's workin'." Does he like the radio? "I don't hold with furniture that talks." Titus is anemic. If cut, he will not bleed; the wound will only "hiss and pucker." Says Allen: "Titus will be getting better when the other characters have dried...
Butterfly's Belch. At every step down the Alley, Fred has to fight the network censors. About these hapless blue-pencilers play the full, fanged lightnings of his wit. "The Molehill Men," he calls them. "A radio censor is a man who comes into his office every morning and finds a molehill on his desk. His job is to build that molehill into a mountain before he goes home." It still gets his sinus in an uproar to recall that during the war he was forbidden to refer slightingly to the Ubangi -because, the censors explained, the Ubangi might...
...scientists leading the chase. Millikan proclaims that "the mechanistic philosophy is bankrupt." The trend is toward God, all right. Or rather, it is away from His enemies. It has become as fashionable and as easy to laugh at the blindness of ethical relativism with C. S. Lewis, the English wit, as it used to be to laugh with H. L. Mencken at the blindness of the Bible belt. But has the tone of the laughter improved? Is there...