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Word: wittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharp-profiled Rev. A. (for Arthur) Powell Davies, 44, is a man who is heard. Every Sunday his congregation* at the chaste, red brick, All Souls' Unitarian Church overflows from the church auditorium into adjacent halls and recreation rooms. Reason: his 35-minute sermons are protein-rich with wit, wisdom, sincerity and invective. His preaching has made Welsh-born Powell Davies one of America's outstanding liberal clergymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unrepentant Liberal | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...crony, Cartoonist Ham Fisher, Flagg has a thorned rose: "He is so keen, so well informed; his wit is sharp and his imaginative humor is boundless-it is incredible that none of all this ever gets into his strip of 'comic stuff' called [Joe] Palooka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Capers & Creatures | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...PLEASURE OF THEIR COMPANY (653 PP-)-Edited by Louis Kronenberger -Knopf ($5). Subtitled "An Anthology of Civilized Writing" this is a connoisseur's selection of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, in which "urbanity, irony, elegance, skepticism, sophistication, wit, play a leading part." Twenty-one' polished pieces by Petronius, Lucian, Voltaire (all of Candide), Saint-Simon, De Maupassant, Congreve, Pope, Henry James (all of Washington Square), Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Henry Adams, etc. Excellent choices, in a finely printed volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Anthologies | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 23, 1946 | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Egypt (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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