Word: wittedness
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The cast, decked in outlandish costumes mocking the artistic craze of the period, is usually equal to the quick-witted and congenial pace set by the authors. Though no strong voices emerged, the singing bubbles smoothly over Gilbert's patter, and the evening's few sour measures are easily obscured...
Eyebrows & Aluminum. Though McGinnis does not have much elbow room on the board of directors, he does not need much. Smooth, sharp-witted and a proven good railroader, he knows the business from roundhouse to board room. The son of a New York Central foreman, he learned to specialize in...
The Exhilarating Rounds. Celebrities like to be in Lyons' column as much as he likes to put them there (except for Walter Winchell, with whom he has bitterly feuded in the past few years). He reaches for friendship, shows most people he writes about in a favorable light, and...
Lessons for Children. Author de Beauvoir is at her brightest and best in describing the sort of exasperation that takes a keen-witted, methodical man when he tries to get the better of a girl who lives stubbornly by whim and base instinct. The more Pierre tries to discipline Xaviere...
(See Cover) By the evening of Thursday, Feb. 25, 1954, Senator Joe McCarthy, after a fortnight of mounting frenzy, had built the smallest of molehills into one of the most devastating political volcanoes that ever poured the lava of conflict and the ash of dismay over Washington. Joe, the stoker...