Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condensed form. All the old newspapers were present in reduced quantity, wearing the " combined " head. Those who knew their favorite paper's type could usually find it- but it contained only a modicum of news and a somewhat diminished supply of comics and scandal. Heywood Broun, the famous wit, remarked: " Not within our time has there been a period in which a citizen might become embroiled in a scandal with less abashment...
...caption, English Composition, in the Elective Pamphlet fails completely to describe English 12. What of the "evenings" which form an integral part of the course? What of the personal conferences in which the fearful author is forced to see himself in the Mirror of Truth? And what of the wit and humor of his lectures? For beside Professor Copeland's technical knowledge he has an even greater asset--a rich and unusual sense of humor. He believes after Moliere in the "cure by laughter" and he is amply justified by its success...
...gave Firpo his nom de guerre, "Wild Bull of the Pampas." And later it was the newspapermen who had Luis eat raw meat. Thus with a single flourish of the pen is a bovine rendered carnivorous. One journalist (Frank F. O'Neill of The Sun and The Globe] had wit enough to remark: " The public is expected to see a horned man roaming about with blood from fresh-killed steaks dripping from his mouth...
...Jolly Roger. A. E. Thomas has created a pirate drama cunningly carved from sea yarns of long ago with a cutlass of pointed wit. He has worked along lines made familiar to the great American audience by Captain Applejack.. He swashes more, however, than did the creators of that popular satire. He dramatizes his burlesque rather than burlesquing his drama. He maintains a beautiful, deep blue background of sea and sky, and salts his situations with oaths and the glitter of daggers at every course...
...often cordially hated by those who cannot stand frankness when it is mixed with wit; but his underlying mood of fairness and understanding has won him, according to Mr. Babbitt, " a host of friends...