Word: wittedness
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¶ James Paul ("Jimmy") Warburg stepped into the glare of the New Deal not long after he was made vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co. in 1932. The sharp-witted son of the late great Paul Moritz Warburg stood close to President Roosevelt's financial ear in...
In 1690 a dull-witted secretary to William III, one Constantine Huygens, wrote that he had just bought a book of Leonardo's drawings for 3½ guineas. He was too thrifty to give it to his King and he seems to have forgotten the book entirely. More than...
¶A well-fed farmer family lightens the after-dinner lull by laughing at the horrible trained antics of a half-witted Negro boy.
The Informer (RKO). When considering the Irish, the fixed policy of Hollywood in the past has been to do so in terms of either Abie's Irish Rose or Peg o' My Heart. Consequently, any picture of which the Irish hero is neither a rustic clown nor a...
As impersonated by big-eyed, golden-haired Actress Helen Chandler, Angela Shale is a young woman who looks like an angel out of Heaven, but generally acts like the most mischievous little shrew who ever sat on a ducking stool. By tears, coquetry, wheedling, imprecations, she is bound and determined...