Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tremont--"On Approval"--8:15 o'clock--Wit in the wild or marriage on approval...
...Wendell Holmes, that we must mourn the departure of the great conversationalists. Among all the charming talkers of the Saturday Club, one of Boston's proudest traditions, where gathered for dinner Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, and others, he was admitted to be the most sparkling. It is fortunate that his wit and brilliance have been preserved for posterity in the table talks of the "Autocrat" and the "Professor...
...plots. Montgomery Higginson's "The Word of a Friend" builds up with tolerable success the form of Bill the college waster, but fails dismally in the denounement which is designated to dispose of him; and Francis Fawsett's "Fisherman's Luck", in spite of occasional bright phrases, shows neither wit enough to redeem the broad burlesque in the lay figures of Waterly Meadows and Sir Tenterhook Weathervane nor invention enough to cover the threadbare situation in which these persons take part...
...remove all real grievances, to renew pur treaties on an equitable basis and to place our future relations with the Chinese people on a footing of friendship and good-will." Some U. S. citizens read the daily newspapers carefully, and, knowing that Mr. Rogers was laboring hard over his wit, excused his deliberate misquotation...
...never to have met Pao-yu Tang (not long since diplomat's lady at Washington and London) moving always among the great and in the international world of fashion, now resident in Peking with Foreign Minister Dr. Welling ton Koo, whom she has groomed with her wealth and wit into China's most famed diplomat...