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...farm, settle down to make their dream come true. But then things began to go wrong. The boss's son was an ugly customer, and he had just married a floozy who kept him at a white heat of suspicion. When he picked on Lennie, the big half-wit got so panicky that he seized his little tormentor's hand, crushed it nearly to bits. George managed to get them out of that scrape, but when Lennie accidentally broke the floozy's neck, there was only one thing George could do to remedy that. Knowing where Lennie...
Counsel advises me that your footnote explaining the meaning of, as you say, "coffee-pot." to wit: "low in . . . prestige," is libelous per se. Reference to an unabridged dictionary for the words "prestige" and "low" leads me to feel that if the facts are not as stated by counsel to me, they should...
John Pelley's two biggest functions, however, are fronting for the roads before Congress and Labor. In the first capacity he is ably assisted by Robert Virgil Fletcher, a courtly onetime Mississippi judge whose dignity and patience have made him popular with Congressional committees. Now 67, sharp of wit, lucid in explanation, Lawyer-Lobbyist Fletcher heads A.A.R.'s legal department, likes to make speeches like the one he gave last week in St. Paul against government regulation and government ownership. Currently A.A.R. is lobbying, with the support of Labor, for the repeal of the "long-&-short haul" clause...
...gentlemen not to be confused with Boston's traditional "sloppy dressers." In its first issue The Twelve Twenty-Five Express, advance Reunion pepsheet, last week published its estimate of the Class of 1912 long before the appearance of the autobiographical 25th anniversary report. Estimator was another ex-Lampoon wit, Humorist Robert Charles Benchley,* who proceeded to set down 1912's "Sobering Statistics": "In 25 years, the Class of 1912 has produced only one Bishop of Albania, or, at any rate, only one Bishop of Albania who later became Prime Minister.-j-"Only one member of the Class...
...with Hardy he is "somewhere in the desert" where he is supposed to own a silver mine or gold mine. He has two Lincoln Zephyrs and supercharged Ford, specially geared for high speed. He is about 33, 5 ft. 10 in 220 lb. He is built like a wrestler, wit tremendous hands, bulldog shoulders and biceps half again as big as Jack Dempsey's. His face is handsome, disposition genial. He can consume abnormal quantities of whiskey. He frequently stays up all night and recently did so five nights in a row. He is naturally soft-spoken and dislikes...