Word: wittedness
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Deliberately to hurt the serious reader, to lacerate his peace of mind-such is the present avowed purpose of Count Hermann Keyserling. "I hope," writes this big-boned Latvian Count, who has penned two U. S. best sellers,† "I hope that all Pharisees, all Philistines, all nitwits, the bourgeois...
It will be difficult to replace Boss Brennan of Illinois. An Irishman, plump and nimble-witted, a poker player and duck hunter, a successful and honest businessman, a philanthropist who gave away several hundred wooden legs*-he was sincerely mourned. The triumph of his career as boss came in 1923...
The uncertainty, if not the obscurity, into which sharp-witted Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire was plunged directly after the Hoover nomination, persisted and persisted until last week. Senator Moses was the original Hoover-ite in the Senate. He was made permanent chairman of the Kansas City convention...
Arthur Stone as a thimble-witted rascal of a brother-in-law.
The End of St. Petersburg. After a prolonged inspection from dubious and dull-witted cinema censors, this interesting though not entertaining production was permitted to appear before Manhattan spectators. It delineated for their benefit the events that led up to the overthrow of the Tsarist régime. The picture...