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Word: wittiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wolff was the wittiest and more entertaining speaker of the evening and appeared to win the approval of the audience to his side of the argument. At the end of the debate many questions were asked of the speakers from the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATE VALUE OF JURIES AND ADVERTISEMENTS | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Violinist Pochon is the wittiest and most talkative of the four. He had studied medicine, composed chamber music. His wife is a Virginian; he has a stepson of 14 and one child of his own. Cellist D'Archambeau is also married. Violinist Betti and Viola-player Moldavan are both bachelors, the one confirmed, the other eligible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flonzaley Farewell | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...comic cinema, last week, in the Palado Real at Madrid, a few hours before Death came. Their good humor was increased by the prospective arrival, on the morrow, of King Christian and Queen Alexandrine of Denmark. There would be fetes, galas and good cheer-for Danes are the wittiest and most light-hearted of Scandinavians. The eyes of the Spanish Infantas would sparkle as they trotted to jazz strains in the arms of blond courtiers from Copenhagen. And as the counterpoise, the pivot of all this gayety, there would be the Queen Mother. She seemed in excellent health and spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Queen into Pantheon | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...owes them, form a corporation to save him from his creditors on condition that he marry an heiress they pick out for him. Once more Menjou, with slight movements of his hands, lips, and eyebrows, convinces you that laughter and humanity can exist under a starched, striped shirt. Wittiest shot of this good picture is the happy ending-Menjou arranging books in the window of a Fifth Avenue bookstore so that their titles explain to his sweetheart that he has gotten a divorce from the heiress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...Gold Mining Co. has been the dullest and dreariest. Back in 1919, it cost $2.85 a share; in 1923, one could buy it for 25?. But for the most part, it hovered around $1. And there, for a jest, three potent stockmarketeers bought it in large blocks as the wittiest of all possible Christmas gifts to their wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Juneau Joke | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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