Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Edward Kennard Rand, 73, Harvard classicist famed for his well-dried Horatian wit; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. As a onetime ex change professor at the Sorbonne, he offered as the secret of successful Latin instruction: a teacher feminine, fair-&-20, and French...
Ilka Chase, professional wit and author (In Bed We Cry), advised women to marry younger men, explained: "Men, poor things, age so quickly after they're married. . . . The older wife is the ideal combination of what every boy craves: she's mother-wife-mistress, the 3-in-1 bargain package...
Died. John Gale Hun, 67, founder (1914) and headmaster of the Hun School (boy's preparatory) and of Princeton's best-known tutoring school; of a stomach hemorrhage; in Trenton, N.J. A famed teacher of dullards, an inveterate poker player, a kindly wit, Dr. Hun helped many a husky lad get into Princeton University and stay there...
...great a part of the world's future well-being depends on the amicability of Russian-American relations, wouldn't it be wise to reserve a less glittering, more thoroughly documented, more restrained style of reporting for use on the Russians, and save your piercing wit for your targets elsewhere...
That moderately successful comedy, besides being semiautobiographical, was supposed to have echoed, faintly at least, the fuming sincerity of PM's Ralph Ingersoll and the virtually unduplicable wit of Dorothy Parker. Miss Gordon was well qualified to reverberate the Parker echoes. Miss Dunne, despite her own kinds of charm and humor, is not. Mr. Knox, whose youthful appearance will surprise those who have seen him only in the title role of Wilson* is superb as the editor, whether chattering at the edge of mental exhaustion, or putting all possible gusto into a reading of a post-Wilsonian editorial. Good...