Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following a rather slow act of 40 minutes of dull wit and duller love making, Noel Coward, with the entrance of the Marquise Eloise in the second act finally lets his audience know that his comedy, "The Marquise" is concerned about one naughty French lady of the eighteenth century. The play opened Monday night at the Repertory Theatre and in it Mr. Jewett, forgetting his passion for young talent, had the better and more experienced actors interpret the comedy...
...Jewish Matriarch's passionate assumption of power, Author Stern now tells the story of an Anglo-Saxon mother's fluttering desire, not for power, but for filial devotion, which is doled out to her spasmodically, and none too generously by a generation impatient of self-sacrifice. With wit and wisdom Miss Stern divides her sympathies, but indulges of course the side of radiant, reckless youth...
...could go on at some length, expanding on the virtues of TIME, but, believing that brevity is the soul of wit, I hesitate to lay myself open to charges of being a halfwit, therefore I hasten to the end, adding only that I am convalescing after an attack of encephalitic paralysis and TIME has materially aided in keeping my disposition bearable for my family...
When her bathroom scales read exactly 103 pounds, Elizabeth B. Patterson, Smith College student at Northampton, Mass., decided the cheapest way to get home to Santa Barbara, Calif., was to ship herself by air mail. Officials paid tribute to her wit, ingenuity, nerve, but turned down her offer of $300 and reminded her the charge per passenger for such a trip...
...Founder himself; when the owner died, Lawyer Nevin was made Vice President of everything, all around. Directorships followed, automatically. Wilful-faced, 200 pound, 6 ft. 2 in., firm chinned, wideshouldered Attorney Nevin became master last week of Wanamaker's interests in the U. S. and the world, to wit: Wanamaker's stores in Philadelphia, New York, Paris, Tokyo; A. T. Stewart Realty Co., Manhattan...