Word: wittedness
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In 1912 U. S. Artists Arthur B. Davies, Walter Pach and Walt Kuhn were busy organizing the famed Armory Show that was to introduce modern French painting to the U. S. Scouting for canvases, they went to the Duchamp brothers' studio, found four by youngest brother Marcel. All were...
Mainspring in the promotion of Narragansett was a onetime Rhode Island mill operator named Walter E. O'Hara, a fast-witted, hot-tempered Irishman with enterprise and gall. He and some friends, including Providence's Judge James E. Dooley, onetime president of the Canadian-American Hockey League, bought...
Chiang's master stroke had been to keep bargaining with the Southerners until after his Nationalist Central Executive Committee had met in Nanking. There last fortnight, with an appearance of democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi...
Last week the State of Utah paid five gunmen $25 each to hide behind a screen, shoot a man dead. In a fit of jealousy, dim-witted young Delbert Green had killed his wife, his mother-in-law and her husband, delayed his execution for six years by fruitless appeals...
In Bill Benton's class of 1921 at Yale there was a nimble-witted youngster named Chester B. ("Chet") Bowles with whom he had only a nodding acquaintance. But by 1929 Bowles knew Benton as ace assistant to Lord & Thomas Adman Albert Lasker in Chicago. Benton knew Bowles as...