Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seniors specializing in English. They were not allowed to help each other, but the smoking of cigarets was permitted. They sat in old Connecticut Hall, where Patriot Nathan Hale once roomed. On the Yale team were eight Phi Beta Kappa men, one dark horse and John Knox Jessup, campus wit, who last autumn wrote on his page in the Yale Alumni Weekly: "Harvard men cannot be said to aim at, for they essentially are, good form...
Fortunately, Lieut.-Commander P. V. H. Weems, U. S. N., is a good-humored fellow of wit, charm and a grin. Fortunately, because he has been chosen to teach the difficult science of navigation to the one man who by reputation and instinct apparently knows plenty about it: Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...play is full of easy-going wit which requires no pregnant pauses to speed it on its way. The people are lazy and likable. All went well with Billie Burke, although perhaps she sometimes twitched too violently in her efforts to emphasize her charms. Many of the other members of the cast were with The Happy Husband when it ran long and breathlessly in London...
P.ose Macaulay's perennial concern for human snobbishness, and consequent shams, takes new form in this entertaining tragedy, punctuated as it is with slapstick. No innovation, it is a psychological study of dual, or rather multiple personality. It is done with wit, intelligence, and according to Freud...
...long stretches in which author e. e. cummings had obviously fallen into the immature fallacy of trying to tell all about Life in a single paragraph, found partially concealed in its three spasmodic acts many specimens of acute and mordant understanding as well as a fair quantity of ribald wit...