Word: wittingly
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...cheer dint of his own personality and wit, Father Feeney has won support and attention with sentiments that have been laughed at when voiced by others. He is training his students, he claims, to carry his doctrine "to every common and public square in greater Boston...
...Players club in Manhattan staged a 70th birthday surprise party for their friend and noted wit, Franklin P. Adams Highlight of the evening: a special edition of "The Conning Tower," F.P.A.'s old newspaper column. The contributors included Edna Ferber, Louis Untermeyer, and the playwriting team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse who sounded the keynote of the celebration...
...Paint Your Wagon suffers less from a shortage of women than from a shortage of wit, from imagining that copious research is a substitute for bright conversation. This defect is an unfortunate handicap for a show that is otherwise a pleasant enough addition to the Broadway scene...
...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness, as an engaging master criminal in a superior British concoction of wit and farce (TIME...
...introduction, it is blood & sweat money. Always a deadline worker, Arno lashes himself through grueling 24-and 36-hour stints. Credited with inventing the one-line caption, Arno says: "I suppose it appealed to me particularly because my English grandfather . . . had taught me that brevity was the soul of wit-a surprising maxim to come from a lifelong reader of Punch...