Word: wits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William B. van Lennep, curator of the Theatre Collection, said that "even his bad prose is better in wit and brilliance than the prose of almost any man writing in English today. That's how good...
...suppose that if I do not write and tell you that I will stop using the name 'Statler' in my advertising . . . you will make trouble for me. That will be an awful hard thing for you to do for several reasons, viz., as follows and to wit: there is a substantial mortgage on this place. I do not keep any checking account, holding my cash in my left and right pants pockets and keeping my accounts on a clear pine board which I burn on March 16, after having made a true and honest accounting...
...government had charged Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave with high treason, but government witnesses at his trial last week had little or nothing to say about treason, concentrated instead on other accusations against Seagrave, to wit, discourtesy, fornication and slander...
...growing U.S. audience, the names of British Novelists Henry Green and Joyce Gary suggest writing that shines with wit and good humor even when they are dealing with serious stuff. Though Gary's work runs to richness and Green's to slyness, they have one thing in common: they make most U.S. novelists of 1950 seem lugubriously pedestrian...
...should be. Her Walther (young German Heldentenor Hans Beirer) was impassioned, and in notable voice, in the Prize Song. And for once there was a Beckmesser (Baritone Emile Renan) who kept his comedy on the right side of slapstick. Altogether, it was a Meistersinger done with tender wit and the kind of freshness and spirit that brings cheering fans to their feet. Glowed ecstatic Friedrich Schorr, embracing-and being embraced-backstage when the final curtain was down: "Magnificent. I am so proud of my kids...