Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herman N. Bundesen, M. D., of the Chicago department of health, issued a bulletin last week which contained an interesting fact and an atrocious example of medical wit. The fact concerned conjugality: married men live longer than single men, longer than divorced men. Dr. Bundesen supported this statement with statistics gathered from four groups, arranged according to age. Then, by way of summary, he offered the sample of his** humor...
Roused by these wrathy words, the Japanese learned with satisfaction last week that Masanao Hanihara is likely soon to succeed Kentaro Ochiai as Japanese Ambassador to Italy. There his smile, his wit, his vigor may perhaps charm Il Duce. Concurrently Premier Wakatsuki reshuffled his Cabinet, appointed the following politicians to the offices named: Viscount K. Inouye, Railroads; C. Machida, Agriculture; M. Hamaguchi, Home Affairs...
...those Harvard men who have lot yet perused "The Harvard Mother Goose. All Undergraduate Parody," as well as for the public at large, the WBZ Radio Station will broadcast tonight at 10.30 a reading of this latest collegiate wit. Frederick deWolf Pingree, ocC.. of Brookline, the author of the book, will recate his satirical verses and be accompanied by Mr. Clair Leonard, Harvard instructor and planist, whose ability for extempore musical composition has already been demonstrated to the radio public. Mr. Leonard will play humorous improvisations of the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes music which is regarded as the classic...
...rumor is that the Lampoon has seen fit to parody this weekly Ziet-Blatt (my German A does fade) in a burst of wanton wit. And I am certainly proud to know it. When the Lampoon hears of anything to parody that thing is certainly established. I feel positively aged in the wood at the honor. Sometime I shall parody the Lampoon and then we'll all be happy, won't we, children, to use the words of Minnie Mistletoe who broadcasts the Nightly. Nothing for Nice Tots from...
...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY?English accents and English wit in a slim comedy of stolen pearls. Ina Claire and Roland Young...