Word: wittier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood has given The Fan some handsome costumes and sets, retained a few of Wilde's wittier lines, and plumped out the familiar plot, like a tired old pillow, into a new but improbable shape. As the wayward Mrs. Erlynne, Madeleine Carroll is going about in present-day London. So is the once dashing Lord Darling-:on (George Sanders). Weighed down by :heir years and greasepaint, they piece together the old story in flashbacks...
...Chatsworth, Ill. First Lieut. Billie Wittier, an Army nurse, made Page One of the weekly Plaindealer when she got back home: "She has seen much front-line active duty in the European sector, including Italy and Germany. She was able to see the Alps in all their beauty and says Switzerland, especially, is beautiful...
...Double Man ($2), a brilliant attempt to outwit the age's prevailing schizophrenia, and to focus at least a statement of the problem of evil and of the possibility of hope. All this it managed in verses as clear and casual as The New Yorker's, though wittier. Louis MacNeice published his collected poems ($2.50). The one durable translation was Robert Fitzgerald's Oedipus at Colonus ($1.50), which made clear that Sophocles was not, as other translations suggest, an unsuccessful Victorian imitator of Shakespeare. Richard Aldington's The Viking Book of Poetry ($3.50) was the year...
...were wittier than they were And smarter, too; The CRIME was victorious...