Word: wittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Campaign by Railroad. At 22 Yosuke Matsuoka went back to the country he had left at 13. He spent nearly two years studying Japanese and Chinese classics, passed his Foreign Service examinations brilliantly, was launched on almost two decades of diplomacy. By 1917 his fleetness of wit and tongue, his drive, brought him to be Secretary to Foreign Minister Count Shimpei Goto; the next year he was Secretary to Japan's first commoner Premier, Takashi Hara. In 1919 he was a Japanese delegate to the Paris Peace Conference...
...perhaps partial to Mr. Barrett's eccentric wit. But the Advocate, after all, is most palatable when it is witty, least palatable when it broods, or stews about in its own thin juices. There is very little stewing in the present issue, and an exceptional proportion of distinguished writing...
George Bernard Shaw's complaints of the inadequacies of the English alphabet and the consequent troubles we have in spelling [TIME, May 12] brings to mind a similar criticism made by a noted American writer and wit more than 150 years ago. Writing to his sister in 1786 he remarks...
...first time, Class Day wit this year will be supplied by two Ivy Orators, Paul Merrick Hollister, Jr. '41, of New York City and Winthrop House, and Nelson Roosevelt Gidding '41, of New York and Lowell House...
...Bertha cannon is being aimed to destroy the great Cathedral at the center of Paris--but the shot succeeds only in blasting a little privy in the suburbs. Charlie Chaplin, himself, suffered a similar misfortune with this picture. He planned to pierce the Nazis with barbs of wit and make people laugh at the weakness and foolishness of Herr Hitler...