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...wealthy family, Hilaly has made a fortune of his own practicing law. He has taught law at Fuad University and served in the cabinet at various times as Minister of Education and Minister of Commerce and Industry. A moderate, with a reputation for cutting candor and a nimble wit, he shares none of the anti-Britishism which characterizes both Maher and the more fanatic Wafdists...
Thus, in the late '20s, Britain's A. P. Herbert, wit, poet and longtime M.P. (see PERSONALITY), assessed the future of a blonde, green-eyed London chorus girl in a little verse titled The Third from the Right. Last week, a quarter-century later, Hollywood Columnist Sheilah Graham, although she long ago refused the titled suitor, found herself still in Spot No. 3. Just to the right of her in the new and different kind of chorus line stood, in order of rank, Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons, queen of Hollywood gossipists, and Hedda Hopper, undisputed heiress apparent...
...Mass. On those occasions when he noticed his own whims, he liked to embellish them with wit. A man who saw him chasing his hat through a stream of traffic joined in, caught the hat and returned it to G.K.-who promptly assured him that it should never have been rescued at all. "Then why on earth did you run after it?" "It's an old friend," G.K. explained. "I am fond of it, and I wanted to be with...
...REVOLUTION HAPPENS: Bernard Shaw Refuses to Drink the Blood of Aristocrats on Vegetarian Principles and out of Kindness to the Lower Animals." This work is not only a splendid parody of Daumier, it is also an example of Chesterton's genius for translating his gravest opinions into wit. It was, for instance, agony for him to tear himself "out of bed for Mass. He was not speaking lightly when he groaned: "Only religion could have brought us to such a pass...
...during the Peninsular War, and later through a modest role at Waterloo and a quiet five years on garrison in the isles of Greece, Private William Wheeler of the 51st Regiment wrote long letters to his family back in Somerset. Such tales they told, and with such a wit and ardor, that the family kept and read them for a Sunday treat during more than a century after the old soldier's death (he contracted leprosy in Greece). In 1949 the letters came by chance to the eye of a British publisher, were printed, and promptly acclaimed...