Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among Sir William's closest intimates, however, there lurks the suspicion that his ready wit is tickled by "Jix" and "jixie...
This Baker is not to be confused with Ray Stannard Baker, doctrinaire commentator, historian and propagandist of Woodrow Wilson. Nor is he like Newton D. He would never have had the patience-even granting the mental ability-to acquire Newton D.'s learning, trained wit. Nor could he, like Newton D., have spent nearly all his life in one state. Raymond T. Baker is one who craves excitement glorified by achievement...
...female cad of this chronicle, is said to have served Love, "the capricious boy who makes bedfellows of us all." Another young lady is directly addressed by a term seldom heard outside the dogshow. If you are of a cheerful cast, however, you cannot but recognize much mother wit among the refuse, a native tang in the bawdy breeze. The story: the leggy daughter of a long line of muddling-through country gentlemen embraces higher education, marries an elfish gentleman of traditions and talents, sees him off to the wars, straddles those jealous nags wifehood, motherhood and career, and comes...
...discussion proceeds, was an experiment pointed in that direction; and like any early experiment in the arts, it tended to bewilder, and its effect was equivocal. The judges, with their eyes open for logical consistency, voted one way, and the audience, delighted by a steady flow of capable wit, voted the other. The confusion arose, I believe, from the simple fact of distribution. What the new school of debating wishes to do is not to place humor and logic across the stage from each other, as occurred Saturday night, but to combine the two. When this has been accomplished successfully...
...nature derives new yigor from these experiments with humor, and questions of importance can come to be presented in a more keen and pleasing manner, the art will have been greatly refined. Many steps forward have been taken within the last few years by recognizing the important role of wit in debating. Therein lies the true worth of this less solemn tendency. Dwight W. Chapman, President, Harvard Debating Council...