Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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RORY AND BRAN-Lord Dunsany-Putnam ($2.50). Adventures of a half-wit youth and his dog in the pixillated Irish countryside; in the same vein but not the same class as James Stephens' Crock of GoId...
...farm, settle down to make their dream come true. But then things began to go wrong. The boss's son was an ugly customer, and he had just married a floozy who kept him at a white heat of suspicion. When he picked on Lennie, the big half-wit got so panicky that he seized his little tormentor's hand, crushed it nearly to bits. George managed to get them out of that scrape, but when Lennie accidentally broke the floozy's neck, there was only one thing George could do to remedy that. Knowing where Lennie...
...could wish. Sid Silver and gangling Buddy Ebsen would brighten any show with their asinine antics. There are spots in the action that seem to drag a little, especially in some of the love scenes, but such carping criticism is really not justified in the face of the lively wit and music which make "Born to Dance" the fast-moving show...
Counsel advises me that your footnote explaining the meaning of, as you say, "coffee-pot." to wit: "low in . . . prestige," is libelous per se. Reference to an unabridged dictionary for the words "prestige" and "low" leads me to feel that if the facts are not as stated by counsel to me, they should...
John Pelley's two biggest functions, however, are fronting for the roads before Congress and Labor. In the first capacity he is ably assisted by Robert Virgil Fletcher, a courtly onetime Mississippi judge whose dignity and patience have made him popular with Congressional committees. Now 67, sharp of wit, lucid in explanation, Lawyer-Lobbyist Fletcher heads A.A.R.'s legal department, likes to make speeches like the one he gave last week in St. Paul against government regulation and government ownership. Currently A.A.R. is lobbying, with the support of Labor, for the repeal of the "long-&-short haul" clause...