Word: wittedness
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A rough, crude, unbridled force, Huey Long is more than a windy showman of the Tom Heflin breed who bows to party control. He is persistent. He is quick-witted. He is unscrupulous. For a year he has been in open revolt against the Robinson-Glass-Harrison leadership of his...
Month ago nimble-witted Finance Minister T. V. Soong announced that for the first time since China became a Republic her dumbbell finances were whirling in a balanced rhythm (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week popular demands that China spend millions to fight Japan were enough to drive Juggler Soong frantic...
Prince Mike Romanoff, alumnus of Princeton, Harvard, Oxford. Eaton, and several sister institutions, has disappointed his host of admirers. This lightning witted gent who rose from a New York orphanage and sundry reform schools to be lionized by social registries here and abroad has belied his career.
A thousand people were in the building. All but a few hundred on the two lower floors were trapped by the flames. Screaming crowds rushed to the roof where the management had installed cages of live lions, monkeys, bears and a little shrine to Kwannon, Goddess of Mercy. Fortunately employes...
"Flowering Wilderness" is more than the sequel to "Maid-in-Waiting" it is a direct descendant of the great "Forsyte Saga," and the best thing Mr. Gals-worthy has witted since then. Like those books, it provokes such an interest in its characters that one cannot bear to put it...