Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Melissa Mason had charm, wit, grace and a log that could go through a 380-degree circle on a maneuvering board as easily as a pair of dividers...
Said the London Times in its epitaph: ". . . Fellow guests in a Stratford hotel, watching with covert awe the two breakfasting together, all seem to have derived the same impression. It was the professional wit who listened and laughed. It was his wife who made the jokes. This was a true reflection of their life together. Mr. Shaw valued her criticism, knowing it sprang from a genuine love for the arts and a shrewd native wit. She, for her part, was a devoted Shavian. . . . She shirked none of her fancies from youth to old age, and she faced the last...
Hare & Tortoise. In his job, the great ad-libber leaves nothing to luck. He wins by being hare & tortoise both-by carefully plugging along with the help of a batch of scriptwriters and a roomful of filing cabinets, then racing ahead on his own sharp wit. In any Pepsodent broadcast, it's a wise crack that knows its own father...
...hams and the Heinz 57 varieties, he was the literate housewife's delight. To his equal glow for the great and the trivial in books ("As I grow older I find Shakespeare more thrilling, more enchanting; yet I relish a good detective story"), Phelps added the seductions of wit† and a stock of anecdotes about literary greats he had known (Galsworthy, Barrie, Maeterlinck, Conrad, Shaw, et al.). To critical literary contemporaries, Phelps was a sinner who had stopped to look back at the Victorian Age and turned to a pillar of saccharine. Said unruffled Billy Phelps: "The most...
...time the great Gunder Hägg had finished his eighth and last U.S. race at the Triborough Stadium of New York City last week, the lean, blond Swede with the quick flash of mordant wit and the flawless leg action had done something to U.S. track performances. Without apparent exertion he had lowered the old standards that once meant championship running...