Word: wits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commonwealth of Australia to wit. Stonehaven Governor General
...Press generally accorded Oracle Coolidge and his article great acclaim. There was much comment on "sound judgment," "good sense," "sage counsel." Editorial writers heartily welcomed Mr. Coolidge into their profession, but urged him to relax, to reveal some of his proverbial wit...
...mummers to deliver pithy orations against the 18th Amendment. The scenes for these philippics are laid in various U. S. historical spots. The rest of the entertainment, however, punctuated from time to time by Mr. Carroll's addresses to the audience through a microphone, offers plenty of talent, wit, feminine anatomy...
...Social Lion (Paramount) No particular wit of dialog or situation makes this picture sparkle, yet it sparkles; its story is unremarkable, yet continuously entertaining. It concerns a prizefighter who loses an important fight because he takes seriously an opponent who tells him his shoe is untied. Later, having returned to his original profession of spark-plug cleaning, he plays polo for his home-town team and makes love to a society girl. Jack Oakie performs these activities with the necessary absurdity, and with wonderfully skillful, probably unconscious character reading. Like all true comedians, his fooling is human and remotely pathetic...
...amateurs. Her thoughts have remained inaccessible, incommunicable to the herd (as are our own). . . . He who has never pursued the key to the secret of life, be it only in dreams, will never draw near the real Egypt." In one of her last entries, Traveler Bibesco's European wit reasserts itself: "Since I have left Egypt, I keep rubbing my eyes and wonder why I see badly, or if I am going blind. It is her light that I miss. I must have a first cataract operation...