Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author of this encyclopedic work, whereof the wit is second only to the scholarly wealth, is Editor of House and Garden, the sedentary sound of which title he dispels forever with a romantic introductory prose-poem: a series of fadeouts from the motor-clogged highways of today to the first faint trails through the trader's forest...
...massive proportions of wit...
...Sociological Jurisprudence--"a window-dressing title," says Mr. Wright, "for some remarks on the newer tendencies in American law, procedural and substantive." It has suggested itself to the Vagabond as he was musing on the meaning of those two crisp and noble words Sociological Jurisprudence--that the "signs wit hindications" are pointing to the need for speedy changes in American law. Much might be said of the sociological aspects of the recent much bruited crime wave--the Vagabond is not going to say anything about them. Much more might be said about the notorious post-war lapse in morality...
Three years more Paul Claudel waited, questioning himself, then he entered wholly, passionately the Roman Catholic Church. The perfume of censers and the deep thoughtful twilight of cathedrals began to mingle strangely with the keen and originally hated wit of this great young writer-for Paul Claudel rapidly became, and is still, one of the foremost poets and dramatists of France...
...Critics who deny that Professor Pirandello is a philosopher at least agree that his genius for sardonic humor is considerable. If he only toys with mankind's moral and spiritual absurdities, and makes the stage a debating platform for fruitless metaphysics, he at least does it with terse wit and few didactics. Not a few clowns have been "deep" before him, but few "deep" thinkers have managed also to be amusing, and friendly. The amiable title of one of his plays (which opened last week in Manhattan), is Right You Are (If You Think...