Word: wittiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paintings, drawings and prints, gathered together by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, showed Klee at his wittiest, his most charming, and most terrifying. Landscape with Accents and Little Dune Picture had the skilled naivete of antique Chinese drawings, while Lady Demon, Country Dwarf and Mask of Fear were like small windows into a skeleton-filled closet. Exercises, a few squiggly lines portraying an amazed dog watching three uncomfortably contorted human beings, was as sharp and prodding as a Thurber vignette...
Descriptions of Isaiah Berlin range from "the most brilliant man in the Western World" to "the wittiest" to "the best conversationalist." You have an uncomprehending respect for people who so describe him for you feel they belong to the inner circle, the practiced. The outsider suspects the significance of the torrent of Oxford language which pours forth from this round and rumpled gentleman but seldom succeeds in keeping up with his pace. Berlin himself observes that his audiences "first struggle desperately but then sink under, staring with glazed eyes." One intense lady became so desperate that she finally interrupted...
There no longer seems any need for many of the obscurities in Eimi, but the book as a whole grows more pertinent as the years pass. It is certainly the wittiest, and just possibly the most reliable, of all the Moscow traveler accounts...
Saturday night the Idler Players of Radcliffe presented William Congreve's "The Way of the World" in a modern-dress version. This play, the wittiest of Restoration comedies, fares badly by modernization because it is best enjoyed as a period piece. Taking "The Way of the World" of the Restoration takes a great deal out of the ply itself...
Ramadier announced that he would ask the Assembly for a vote of confidence. As the debate opened, the Communists made light of the crisis. Portly Duclos was at his wittiest. He urged that the workers' wages be boosted at the expense of employers' profits. Said he: "You know, it is a mistake to think that the principle of profit-taking was established on Mount Sinai, amid thunder and lightning...