Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other speeches took more or less original lines, to wit...
...that supplied Margot, Viscountess Oxford & Asquith with long, pendent earrings, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde with a sunflower boutonnière and Winston S. Churchill with a paunch, Montagu Collet Norman affects a soft felt hat, bow necktie and a superbly pugnacious goatee. Like his contemporaneous compatriots his wit is keen, his thinking sharp, his knowledge authoritative. Born in 1871, he has been Governor of the Bank of England since...
Author "Henry Thomas" is a learned publisher disporting himself with the anonymity so necessary for successful indiscretions in his native Boston. His humor runs sooner to dubious epigrams than to clever psychology and his wit limps much of the way. But what he does not know about ancient Rome he invents neatly. Readers with a weakness for scandal, however frail, will applaud his effort to do with Cleopatra what Professor Erskine did for Helen of Troy...
...print this letter and if that Dowse person can find another copy nestled among the coals he may read this reply to his English wit. Thank God I am an American schoolboy...
With all thy wit and all thy powers...