Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holmes, Charles Sumher, Edward Everett, and many other personalities of that period, appear in the early lists. Professor Kittredge is a worthy successor of these masters of public address, and his hearers will listen with unusual pleasure, not only to his critical erudition, but to his wisdom, insight, and wit. --Boston Transcript
...those insectivorous swarms that surround are lights, Lamps, and other sources of artificial light. By some, it is supposed to be a humerous tendency of a dying race. By others, it is heralded as the first delicate development of actual thought in individuals long-buried in the slough of wit. By this last definition, it is a freak to the encouraged. Students of Harvard, we have here an unsurpassed opportunity ot practise that Christmas spirit; to herald this hybrid bug as a true struggler toward the light of more serious endeavor! KEITH MACKAYR...
...jokes, short articles, and longer sketches often exhibit a talent truly surprising in a college publication. Many are forced; many are timeworn; and many lack the truth of real humor, but these are soon forgotten in the keen enjoyment of the majority in which the friendly satire and irresponsible wit is truly delightful...
Here is Turkish humor with a vengeance. Kemal suggests to the rest of Europe with shrewd wit: "You may debate, and argue, and bargain, but I shall neither hear nor understand you." And this is exactly the attitude which the Turkish Nationalists have assumed since they burst in through Europe's back door by means of the Mudania Pact in October...
...other characters little can be said. Marie Nordstrom was pleasingly entertaining. Georgie Price still had his abundance of wit. Valeska Surati has evidently reached the peak and is on the decline, and can no longer represent the vampire with marked success...