Word: wittiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys ... a pretty well-founded conviction that I was asleep." He went to art school, suffered a period of religious despair and moral confusion before he emerged as a Catholic, an optimist, a poet, a radical, an art critic, and lecturer with a reputation as one of the wittiest men of his time...
Though mine will undoubtedly be only one of many slightly admonitory responses to your article, it occurred to me that you might be interested to hear of a delightful, homely incident pertaining to the addition of one of the wittiest, simplest, most lovable of men to our mildly insane faculty...
...like the beer-suits and freshman skull caps; it is a ritual which time has enhanced and which offers splendid opportunities for a mass attack upon some hapless individual who can neither foresee nor alter his lot once he has been chosen "best dressed" or named, "thinks he is wittiest". These brands of favour are eagerly reprinted in the metropolitan papers; only to be hauled forth and brought to light years later when the recipient is a candidate for the Presidency or the Chairmanship of a mighty concern...
...background is American, the Doktor functions, with great strain and effort, as the Nazi Party's spokesman to the English-speaking press. His troubles arise chiefly because journalists whom he trustfully presents to his friend Adolf so often write unflattering articles. In his way perhaps the wittiest...
...like Nathan Rothschild, is dignified without being stupid. As squealing little Julie Rothschild, Loretta Young manages to be gay without appearing to have stepped into pro-Victorian England out of a Ziegfeld chorus. C. Aubrey Smith is excellent as Wellington. As old Mrs. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who gets the wittiest lines Nunnally Johnson was able to pack into his script, Helen Westley is superb. Called upon to explain why she has lived so long, she answers, with a muddled sense of finance, by saying: "Why should God take me at 88 when He can get me at 100?" George Arliss...