Word: wits
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Canon Spooner claimed that he was guilty of one spoonerism only in all his life, to wit: "The Kinkering Kongs their places take." The rest were just due to people picking...
This is from start to close a Freshman affair. Few upperclassmen will gain much from the pictures, microscopes, and anatomical disclosures which they did not know before. Save for Professors Shapley's cosmic wit there is no incentive to return unceasingly. The course as organized neither rises above nor falls below the average of mass instruction. It probably offers as many opportunities as, the other introductory courses in science, but no more. They all fall through the necessity of establishing a strict norm in order to grade the students as easily as possible. Therefore there is much unnecessary routine, much...
...merely stated exactly what had happened, to wit that a stray clipping about a fish had been brought in for explanation by a puzzled fish expert, and then I proceeded to quote from it, carefully placing every portion of it in quotation marks...
Blonde (once red-headed), big-wristed, thick-ankled, she is possessed of an opportunistic wit and extraordinary energy. She will be 40 in October. She was born and reared on a farm near Winnipeg, Canada. Of her early cultural advantages, she says that her mother "dedicated her to God as Hannah did Samuel; instead of Cinderella and Mother Goose, I went to sleep with Jonah and the Whale and Daniel in the Lion...
Because economics control politics, the Republican National Committee, in the person of its new Executive Director Robert Henry Lucas, last week set up beside the Administration's bad news the framework of the party's campaign defense, to wit: things will be much worse if the Democrats win the Congressional election in November. Declared Director Lucas in his first broadside...