Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know what was going on a short distance outside of space during the week which preceded the beginning of time. TIME almost knows that, however, and wonder at the comprehensive material presented in the soul of wit of its welcomed weekly pages. . . . Being an idealist with a desire to see everybody excepting myself good and correct at all times I observed an error of statement in a recent number of TIME. According to the editor breeding places of all but four of our North American birds were known. I naturally asked about Ross's goose which had been left...
...Morgan & Co. quaintly reminded the meat men that in ages past butchers were as lowly, as despised as usurers. Now, he was happy to say, "packers" and "bankers" can associate with professors. This badinage was prelude to a prediction astounding from so august an authority, to wit, that every country of Western Europe, including France and Italy, will have returned to a gold exchange basis by the end of next year. This stability of international exchange is of high importance to packers, who now export, a third of a billion dollars yearly in meat products and byproducts...
...about a fractious Chinaboy who invented printing, by accident, through getting jam on his father's carvings. Another was of the sea-dwelling Shen (demons) who inundated a great city to expand their province but were later outwitted by the wisest of kings. There was Weng Fu, the wit-wandering beggar who sold himself as a father to an orphan boy in the Street of Wang's Broken Tea Cup near the Seven Thieves Market, and "that lazy Ah Fun" who blew up his honorable father with the bed-stove, broooomp! All these things and many more...
Yesterday an exclusive New York firm, dealing in men's wear, opened, through its advertising columns, new and alluring vistas to the smart (sartorially) student. These merchants have it would seem, sox innumerable--not the common or vulgar type of sox, but something entirely different and revolutionary. To wit:--sox with the name of the wearer's alma mater embroidered, sewn or woven on the sides, where the clock usually runs. Thus, one sits down, adjusts one's trousers, crosses one's legs--and Jo! there is a Yale, Princeton, Michigan or what not man. While the possibilities are interesting...
...ones. The contents of the Advocate interested him considerably; the stories, he thought, would not have looked incongruous in the professional magazines of his acquaintance, there was an article on a subject much favored by the editors of the "quality group" of magazines for the moment, education to wit; the poetry would have been creditable to any of the reviews. There were, of course, weaknesses in the sheet, rough places, passages that betrayed the undergraduate writer--but on the other hand there were no traces of that distressfully professional journalism which one finds so often in a magazine that cost...