Word: wittingly
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...London wit suggested that Editor Dawson should be elevated to the peerage and take the title of Lord Dawson of Ink-to distinguish him from Lord Dawson of Penn (George VI's physician-in-ordinary...
...have with the caustic wit of your public utterance stripped the coverings from the stupid pretensions and the cunning treason of both domestic and foreign enemies of the people...
These achievements did not keep him from being a gay, and well-known wit. Once three of us, undergraduates still,--of, whom Kittredge was one and I another-were accused of doing something required "a good deal of gall." Whereupon said "Kitty,"-"All Gaul is divided into three parts." I have often been credited with this coruscating retort...
Last week postal inspectors nabbed George Apley's successor, got him indicted for using the mails to defraud "a certain class of persons, to wit, unmarried females." He was a tall, dashing, 40-year-old Back Bay Bostonian (real name he withheld from the police) and he was accused of having turned his correspondence with intellectual females into courtships, his courtships into loans to pay off a mortgage on a nonexistent warehouse in Fairfield, Conn...
...Longstreet shipped on a de luxe world cruise. It turned out to be the last trip of that kind before the world ended. Out of the journals of this voyage he has made a book incomparably better than Decade, and vastly entertaining. Despite streaks of third-hand Times Square wit and Ben Hechtish newspapermannerisms, it suggests that Longstreet may soon be one of the most readable of U.S. writers...