Word: wittedness
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Out Cartel. Britain's tall, lean-jawed Lord Swinton had steadfastly plumped for the all-powerful authority to fix plane rates, routes, and passenger and cargo quotas-in effect, he wanted to cartelize postwar air transport. Otherwise, Britain feared that the sky-filling transport fleet of the U.S. would...
"He has rubbed shoulders with the people for many years. ... He is humble and unassuming. He has lofty ideals. He has attained a great height in education. He commands enviable diction of the English language. He is eloquent and his thoughts flow. He is ready-witted. He is independent in...
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, bald, bespectacled British humorist (Thank You, Jeeves; Quick Service, etc.) captured in France by the Nazis in 1940, was found alive & well in Paris' Hotel Bristol, eager to return to London to dispel the rumors that he had been a Nazi sympathizer.* He called his five...
The C.I.O., the Northern city bosses and the South clashed last week at the 29th Democratic convention in Chicago. The fight, which ranged from the rawest of ward-heel tactics to the most delicate and nimble-witted of manipulations, ended in defeat for the C.I.O. and the Native Radical wing...
One afternoon Lord Keynes, tall, slow-moving and quick-witted, appeared as guest star at this session, gazed on questioners like a kindly, elderly uncle. Then, for nearly 90 minutes, he parried questions on the gold standard and capital movements.