Word: wittedness
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Explosion. While the Marshal brooded, a band of Nationalists, infuriated by his press tirade against the Nationalist Witos Cabinet, rushed without warning upon his house, surrounded it, called to Pilsudski to come out and be thrashed. Thick-witted, they had not cut his telephone wire. With a lion's...
Thrifty, the grocer was still tending store when, two hours later, a motorist entered to make purchases. Hospitable, the grocer engaged his customer in conversation. Confiding, the customer let fall that his name was Straight. Quick-witted, the grocer asked if he was Allen Straight. Yes, he was. . . . Mrs. Straight...
But for the tutorial abilities of Sam Rosenbaum, the list of Yale graduates in and around the Class of 1907 might have been much smaller than it turned out. And having been graduated, Sam Rosenbaum, no man to underrate his abilities, saw no reason why succeeding classes should deminish for...
(3 of 4) Floor Leader to succeed Mr. Longworth (as Mr. Longworth had promised if he won), a little more business was transacted and in less than an hour and a half the caucus was over. Mr. Longworth-"Nick," wearer of spats, genial, just a bit aristocratic -had advanced his...
Maudlinity came to be worth the incredible sum of $6,000 a week to them. They formed their own company. Famed were its members: Peter F. Daily, "the quickest-witted man who ever wore grease-paint", who drank a quart of champagne and a quart of whiskey every evening in...