Word: wittedness
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These circus methods, added to Hawley's impatience with slower-witted businessmen; made him into a Minneapolis legend. Stories about him were born, many of them apocryphal. Most apocryphal: Hawley supposedly invited bankers and businessmen to an elaborate banquet. After dining and wining them he stood up and supposedly...
Bruckner loved food, beer (as many as 13 seidels of Pilsener at a sitting), and the waltzes of Johann Strauss. His favorite reading matter was the Bible and a life of Napoleon, whom he enormously respected. He had a dim-witted love of titles, once sent a letter to the...
Teaching quick-witted Koreans was pleasant until the Japanese seized Manchuria (1931). Then the Japs dictated what should be taught, constantly suspected "dangerous thoughts." When one faculty member preached a chapel sermon on the exodus of the Israelites, the Japanese arrested him, charged him with preaching against them by parables...
Dale Maple is a tall, quick-witted young man with a ruddy face and ready grin. Covered with scholastic honors from San Diego High at 16, he later went to Harvard. There he was bounced out of a German club for singing Nazi hymns, out of the R.O.T.C. for Nazi...
To head the N.F.A.S. the ship operators chose ruddy, suave, Almon E. Roth, 57, known in West Coast shipping circles as one employers' representative who could match brains with razor-witted Longshoreman, Harry Bridges. Roth, as president ot the Waterfront Employers Association of the Pacific Coast, struggled with Bridges...