Word: wittedness
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For half-witted John Straffen, who had never felt the slightest sense of guilt over any of his crimes, the capture meant simply the end of a lovely afternoon. For the villagers whose homes lie within escaping distance of Broadmoor Institution, it meant something else. Next morning the strangled body...
He helped Hecht to found the Chicago Literary Times, an irreverent journal that described Chicago as "the jazz baby-the reeking, cinder-ridden, joyous Baptist stronghold . . . the chewing-gum center of the world, the bleating, slant-headed rendezvous of half-witted newspapers, sociopaths and pants makers." He headed east to...
All Set. How did the experiment turn out? After squirming through the two hours of the program, John Crosby, the sharp-witted Radio & TV critic of the New York Herald Tribune, decided the time had come to read NBC-and telecasters in general-a lecture of what's wrong...
At its best, no comic strip was more whimsically humorous than Crockett Johnson's Barnaby. The world of five-year-old Barnaby was peopled by such characters as McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who talked with a Bronx accent, Gorgon, a talking dog, Gus, a friendly ghost, and a rotund...
Ann Blyth plays the slutty princess of Samarkand with a dead pan and what sounds very much like a runny nose. David Farrar is an ideal match for her as he slogs stupidly through the role of Sir Guy of Devon, a Crusader even more preposterous than the Crusades themselves...