Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel Nikolai Zabotin, "in view of the inadmissibility of the activities" of members of his staff. The secrets he got were not very good ones, Moscow added in tactless vexation, because they could be found in published works, including the "well-known pamphlets of the American Smyth." Quipped one wit: "The Russians complain the diamonds are paste...
Rowlandson's raffish lampoons showed a corrupt but essentially comic world in which everyone was either too fat or too thin. Plump, pug-faced William Hogarth was perhaps harder to take. With less wit, he had gone deeper into the cynical, sensual, swaggering spirit of his time, and used his engraving tools, like a moral surgeon, to lay bare the malignant tumors of cruelty, ignorance and greed...
...Urey, noted University of Chicago chemist and a leader in the Manhattan Project, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Congresswoman from California, and Norman Corwin, radio writer whose "Set Your Clock at U-235" has forcefully dramatized the menace of atomic destruction. His address, liberally gingered with the Shapley wit, drew a tremendous ovation...
Famed for wit as well as pedagogy, Dr. Neilson was also a scholar, author of authoritative books (Essentials of Poetry, Burns, How to Know Him, etc.). He was associate editor of his friend Charles W. Eliot's "five foot shelf" of Harvard classics, and editor in chief of the second (1934) edition of Webster's New International Dictionary...
...Where Wit and Judgment live as Celibate...