Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing stopped in 1914, when a doctor reminded him that he would be unable to collect royalties in a cemetery. There were plenty of royalties-from his succession of Broadway hits (The College Widow, The Sultan of Sulu), and from his famed Fables in Slang. In the Fables, wit-coated little tales told in capital letters, an American generation found a peculiar charm, for George Ade reworked the goody-goody stories of his time through a screen of Big City sophistication, making them gay but not risqu...
George Ade watched the U.S. forget Artemus Ward and Josh Billings, the great humorists of his youth, and knew that one generation's wit is another generation's banality. He saw his own slang ("the cold grey dawn of the morning after"; "I felt like thirty cents") become shopworn clichés. And he came to believe that the only funny thing he ever wrote...
...seems, in itself, questionable. So, we spent the week looking for a reason behind the new screened-box arrangement aft of Cowle, and have reached, after what might be called an exhaustive research, a startling conclusion. From those in the know comes a plausible, if not satisfying, explanation: To wit: Boston is a very cultivated and humane place. Along with Societies for the Continuation of Pilgrim's Day and the Prevention of the Slander of the Irish, is the Greater Society of Greater Boston for the prevention of cruelty to the summer season's flies. For that purpose, it seems...
...informal quips were as popular as his formal wit. Of language, he once said: "[Canadians] use English for literature, Scotch for sermons and American for conversation." One of his most quoted sallies: "God takes care of fools, drunks and the United States of America." In Nonsense Novels he created the young man in love who "flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions...
Civic Attraction. In San Francisco, Monteux's portly figure, dyed black hair and Gallic wit have long since become civic features. He lives with his excitable, rolypoly French wife in the oldfashioned, palatial Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill. The Monteux blue-serge suits and pearl stickpins are often seen in social salons...