Word: wittingly
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...humorist is usually a passing fancy with the public. His brand of wit catches the popular eye, holds it for a space, then is forgotten, as a new humorist comes along with a new method of twisting his phrases, of rolling his tongue or of winking his eye. Stephen Leacock's popularity has lasted longer than most. From Literary Lapses to My Discovery of England his books have been funny with a certain consistency. Canadian by birth, professor of political economy by profession, a raconteur who has only one equal in my experience [Irvin Cobb], he is a solid, jolly...
...Guitry's "Beranger" is in direct contrast to "The Life of Man", being of a lighter character. Guitry pictures biographically the life of the famous poet, Beranger, with all his pleasures and his conflict with Talleyrand. The play has been translated by Howard Phillips '23 without detracting from its wit or vigor...
...Cornell graduate, is as renowned for his affability as the Japanese Ambassador Hanihara is for his wit. If Washington is still destined to be the scene of Sino-Japanese quarrels, the next round will be a battle of smiles...
...discussion of comic personality on the musical stage can be quite adequate without due homage to Jack Hazzard, whose sentimental song parody is one of the brighter moments in the Greenwich Village Follies, or the overpowering pair of lovebirds, Savoy and Brennan, or the cowboy wit, Will Rogers of the Ziegfeld Follies...
...ENCHANTED APRIL-the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden-Doubleday ($1.90). Four London women, leaving their husbands behind them, spend an enchanted April in an Italian castle. The tiny rapier of the author's wit, her penetration and her sympathy, give the characters reality and the setting charm...