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Word: wittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that registration in itself may be taken as some assurance if not a guarantee against loss to those who purchase registered securities. General acceptance of such a misconception of the Commission's function under the Securities Act of 1933 would defeat the very purpose of the Act, to wit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Died. Jesse ("Now You Can Be Taller Than She Is") Adler, 60, the little man (5 ft. 5 in.) who took thought and added two inches to the stature of the little man (himself included) with Adler Elevator Shoes; of coronary thrombosis; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Famed for wit as well as product, Adler wrote a weekly chuckler ("Jesse Adler Looks at the News") for 106 newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...Burrows is a wit's wit, a clown's clown. The late Robert Benchley called him "the greatest satirist" in the U.S. The men who make the public laugh-Danny Kaye, Groucho Marx, Fred Allen, Jack Benny-split their sides laughing when Abe performs. Outside a little circle of Hollywood and Manhattan partygoers, few know the 35-year-old, balding, blinking radio writer whose hobby is poking fun at Tin Pan Alley. But last week, Abe agreed that his stuff was too good to keep. He began a $3,000-a-week job writing a new CBS comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Abe's Hit Parade | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...colossal box-office draws of all time. But it set a new standard for cinema comedy, and much of the credit rightfully went to Gable's witty, fast-paced performance. He has managed through the years to keep up the pace, if not always the wit; a full Gable catalogue would include several dozen pictures ranging in altitude from the high-flown, windy Gone, which was hardly his fault, to the lowdown, torrid Somewhere I'll Find You, brought out shortly after he left Hollywood in 1942 to join the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 11, 1946 | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...stands revealed that Harry S. Truman . . . is President of the United States in name only. . . . We have been robbed of our birthright and stripped of our honor because President Truman and his picked associates . . . have had neither the wit nor the courage to face their duties. . . . This group is at the core Communistic and takes its orders from Moscow. . . . Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Truman plays the piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thirty Seconds over Truman | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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