Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stocky Charlie Daggert knows how to use his fists. At 18, during World War I, he punched his way to the featherweight championship of the U.S. Navy. But, as Daggert says, he also has "a bit of Irish wit." Last week Daggert called upon that wit...
...Chirico (pronounced Kirico) was last reported living in Florence. Following his visionary, "enigmatic" period, he produced a series of relatively academic paintings featuring prancing stallions, which an unsympathetic wit once dubbed "neigh plus ultra." During the '20s he quarreled bitterly with the official Paris surrealists, who formally decided that he had died spiritually...
...late Herbert K. Somborn, movie producer, second of Gloria Swanson's four husbands. A coffee-bibber, Somborn wanted 20 cups a day. And he often sighed for his mother's home cooking. A restaurant seemed the only answer. He outlined the idea to his friend, legendary Wit Wilson Mizner. Cracked Mizner: "A restaurant like that would succeed-even if you called it the Brown Derby...
...Some 3,679 old people solemnly assured census takers that they were centenarians. The Bureau admitted that the figure was dubious: many an oldster (far under the 100-year mark) has a fuzzy memory, a puckish wit, or both...
Otherwise Early to Bed is a brisk Broadway show, produced with pre-Pearl Harbor opulence and making up in snap and lure for what it lacks in style and wit. The girls are beautiful, the costumes bright, the dancing fast & furious. Though "Fats" Waller's score provides no new Honeysuckle Rose and, in general, is bet ter danced than sung, it is pleasantly satisfying. The Ladies Who Sing With a Band is a gay spoof of female mike-blasters, This Is So Nice is a likeable ditty, There's a Man in My Life, a warming love song...