Word: wittedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Two bright-witted, toothy British youngsters last week raised merry hell with British-Canadian relations. In the first frantic days of the war Caroline and Eddie Bell were shipped off to Canada by their Oxford don father who admonished them that "you can't lay the flattery and gratitude...
One of the most enormous acts of isolationism in U.S. history was committed in June 1930: passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Its purpose was to give U.S. producers a noncompetitive monopoly of the U.S. market, regardless of the consequences abroad. It was the brain-child of Utah'...
A cockney "Do come in, do come in, do come in; sit you down, sit you down" and the show is on. Lavish requests to share his Virginia Rounds are poured out, flavored with an extreme East-end accent and strained through a prodigious black moustache. Twinkling eyes and a...
Today at 58, he is still knife-witted, but illness and study have stooped his shoulders, given him the gentle manner of Mr. Chips. Off the job, his chief interest is the ballet. In 1925 he married a Russian ballerina, Lydia Lopokova. An art collector, a member of the potent...
One of Lampy's guests at its annual spring dance tonight--although they don't know it yet--will be the young lady who immortalized herself yesterday by referring to Harvard's Funnymen as "dim-witted juveniles with eye-sight corresponding to the length of their hair."