Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ruins; in the "settlements" of Paris II, Russia's and the West's conflicting answers had been clarified, but not reconciled. In a report to the U.S. people this week, Secretary Byrnes put it this way: "The drafts of treaties agreed upon are . . . the best which human wit could get the four principal Allies to agree upon ... in this imperfect and war-weary world...
...latest to tell the story of the pasty, jowly face, the gross, purplish lips, the great wit, great charm and great downfall is British Biographer Hesketh Pearson (Conan Doyle, G.B.S., etc.). "In January 1943 I mentioned to Bernard Shaw," Pearson explains, "that I wished to write a Life of Oscar Wilde." Shaw replied, "My advice is, very decidedly, Don't. . . . There is nothing more to be said." But Pearson went ahead anyhow, having long been interested in the complexities of Wilde's character. Although he had never seen him in the flesh, he knew and had talked...
OSCAR WILDE: HIS LIFE AND WIT (345 pp.) - Hesketh Pearson - Harper...
...sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature . . . to sympathize with a friend's success." Biographer Pearson's sympathy is broad enough to cover both aspects of Wilde's career. He has chosen to stress Wilde the drawing-room wit, the extravagant fop, the brilliant author of comedies as sparkling as any ever written for the English stage...
...People tune in dance bands to listen to music, not to be annoyed by gibberish from an announcer who is not prepared, either in script or in wit, to be amusing," he wrote. (What's more: no more gratuitous comment from bandleaders. Said Bulotti: "It sounds ridiculous to have bandleaders commenting on world affairs, politics and the Russian situation.") He also ordered "all yelling and whistling at the opening and the closing" of Mutual broadcasts to be stopped pronto. "It [makes] the ballroom . . . sound like a noisy saloon filled with bawdy characters intent on drowning out the music...