Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rabbi Stephen S. Wise was one of those who lightly indulged his wit...
King George of England has a physician-a quiet man with a dry voice, a hard head and a sly wit-Sir Arbuthnot Lane of London, whose best friends speak of him as "Lane." Last week he gave a short talk to some 65 well known practitioners over their luncheon, demi-tasses in the stylish Union League Club, Manhattan. Now those who call Sir Arbuthnot "Lane" know that he is not the man to wad a speech with moss-bound medical verbiage, and they were therefore surprised to find in the newpaper synopsis of what he had said at that...
...Wit and Rapier
MICHAEL SCARLETT?James Gould Cozzens?A. & C. Boni ($2.00). Varlet and lord, playwright and swordsman, revel once more in a bold Elizabethan frolic. With wit and a rapier Michael Scarlett, young Earl of Dunbury, fought his way through stirring Elizabethan times. Marlowe, Nash, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, were his cronies. Essex and Southampton were his friends. Elizabeth's favor and her disfavor were his fortune. A fair lady was his love. And death was his portion, and Marlowe...
Surrounded by dreary houses, blackened by the soot that creeps into the air from factory chimneys and shaken at intervals by sluggish trolley cars, there stands in Cleveland a building known as Slovenian Hall-rendezvous for exiled Serbians, Croatians and Slovenians. Last week this hall blazed with light and wit. The Slovenians of Cleveland entertained their most widely celebrated countryman, Ivan Mestrovic, sculptor. Ivan Zorman, spokesman for Cleveland Slovenians, was toastmaster; other prominent citizens-John Gornik, Frank Tomic, Rev. George Petrovic, Bojeslav Mihalievic, W. M. Milliken- spoke. In the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sculptor Mestrovic's work stood...