Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flesh & the Devil, under the knowing direction of Clarence Brown, brought to their apogee the most glamorous wrestling team that ever paralyzed the cinecircuits, and drew from a wit of the period the inspired salute...
Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee...
...Rooney Wit. She even likes the Rooney ribbing and the Rooney wit. Well out of sight of the director, Mickey still mugs like a tic-ravaged chimpanzee in hopes that Cinemactress Garland will louse up the take with a laugh. An example of the Rooney wit occurred during the shooting of Babes in Arms. While Judy was catching a nap in her dressing room, Mickey planted a smoke-pot at the doorsill, bawled "FIRE!", and dashed a glass of water in her face as she sprinted out. Sometimes Miss Garland retaliates. When, making Girl Crazy, she appeared in white calfskins...
...Luftwaffe was at wit's end. Its fighters might hurt but they could never stop the ponderous, night-hidden R.A.F. Fighter protection for U.S. daylight formations is neutralizing the Luftwaffe's newfangled rockets and its bombing technique against U.S. formations-so long as the bombers stay within escort range, which has not yet lengthened enough to embrace inner Germany. Many a U.S. gunner returns nowadays with ammunition boxes heaped high with unused shells...
This is Queen Victoria's eminent biographer caught in the act of composition by his great friend. Sir Max Beerbohm, caricaturist, author, wit and dandy. Last week Sir Max's brisk, elegiac tribute (Lytton Strachey; Knopf; $1) to his late great friend was published in the U.S. It was also the tribute of a dying age to one of the most distinguished of its dead. Wrote Sir Max: "We are told . . . that the present century is to be the Century of the Common Man. We are all of us to go down on our knees . . . and worship...