Word: wittedness
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Quick-witted, he replied: "There are so many reasons. With your permission I will write my answers." So decadent was the Manchu Court that audacious Wang, instead of being beheaded for the capital crime of attempting the life of the Prince Regent, was permitted to paint his reasons at such...
Head of Gyp for three decades has been a suave, nimble-witted gentleman who today is more famed as the president-chairman of another and noncompetitive corporation. Montgomery Ward & Co. Gyp's Sewell Lee Avery was picked to pull the floundering mail-order house from its red depths. He...
With whiskers and side-burns flying merrily in the breeze that tear-jerking, soul-saving mellerdramer of the roaring forties, "The Drunkard" mounts the D. U. stage in handsome form. With a full cast of skilled performers the play blossoms forth in all its noble, rib-tickling splendor, a truly...
No nation has yet been able to dissolve the difficulties of depression by a process of borrowing their way out. Our public debt of nearly 40 billion dollars--or one-fifth of the entire national wealth--should serve as a bracing tonic to even slow-witted treasury officials. Admittedly, the...
Even the nimble-witted money changers admitted that it was the worst day since the dollar was devalued a year ago. A frenzied scramble sent the dollar soaring in terms of francs, guilders, sterling, yen, and at one time it sold nearly 3? above the gold franc parity. The pound...