Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intellect which is supremely like the intellect of the myriads, Ring Lardner is the Shakespeare of the U. S. In person, great-nosed, lean-a melancholy marabou of a man-he understands as no one else alive the U. S. buddy ballplayer, salesman, cop, yegg, bootlegger and poobah. His wit crackles like static, loud enough to disguise, but never to obscure, the grave or bitter tune that runs behind it. In his new book, he writes a series of satiric squibs about religion, Europe, chorus girls, Finnish dramatists, athletes. They are not in his best manner...
...Isabel," first on the program, is an extravagant comedy of Wildean wit, which professes to have no aim or purpose except to entertain. The play opens in the middle of nowhere and rambles through three quite amusing acts, ending in the air. Philip Tonge, taking the part of the husband whose imaginative wife becomes interested in another man, is well qualified for the part, and his portrayal of an absent minded professor was received with much enthusiasm. A long third act is made possible by brilliant dialogue and a comical drunken scene. At the end, the caste of five receives...
Stark Young−"The lustre of it, the health and deviltry . . . wit that runs and pours like wine...
...statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper the circulation), etc of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in sectior 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form to wit...
...Wit that runs and pours like wine...