Word: wittingly
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...biting remarks on the critics' taste for "comfortable" plays, but graciously asserting that the stagnation of the contemporary stage is due, not to the stupidity of the audiences, but to the venality and spinelessness of the modern playwright. Questions at the close of the lecture were answered with flashing wit. Asked whether there was not a dearth of Irish plays, O'Casey pallied gracefully by remarking that dramatisis are turning out enough plays but they're all bad ones...
...very formal touch football game held yesterday, the Sophomore Football Managers decisively and absolutely defeated their opponents, the Freshman Managers. The final score was 37-0, a proof of the greater sagacity and wit of the Sophomores...
Conversation Piece (words & music by Noel Coward; Arch Selwyn & Harold B. Franklin, producers). Like race horses, playwrights are handicapped according to their past performances. If Conversation Piece were the work of a newcomer, critics would probably have acclaimed it as bright, charming entertainment, brimming with wit. tinkling with melody. But versatile Noel Coward has done better before. Matched with This Year Of Grace or Bitter Sweet, the latest Coward musical piece is at a disadvantage...
...Irishman, and therefore a wit, Mr. Leslie manages to compress many an event into a memorable epigram, and he can describe many a contemporary personage with the economy natural to metaphor. The immorality that accompanied night-clubs is chronicled wittily in this adaptation of Holy Writ; a night-club is a place...
...York, Oct. 22--There wasn't anything wrong with English wit when the British Sloop Scarborough arrived today. Her commander, O. W. Cornwallis, descended from the Lord Cornwallis described himself as belonging to the family "which founded the United States of America...