Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear light on one of the strangest characters in U. S. political and literary life. The strongest impression they communicate is that Adams had stupidly patronized a vital, vivid, unexpected character who wrote almost as well as he did and who had a spontaneous liveliness that matched his dry wit. Marian, familiarly known as "Clover," rattled on in her letters to her father, with all the garrulousness Adams ascribed to her, but with a humor for which Adams did not give her credit, about their visits to great London houses, Washington scandals, political intrigues, trips to Spain, Italy, Switzerland...
Five hundred business students who jammed Baker Library at the Business School last night were treated to a speech at the same time highly enlightening and generously sprinkled with the choicest Cantor wit...
...Actor A. (for Alfred) E. (for Edward) Matthews, who talks through his teeth with a bland and preoccupied complacence unique on the Anglo-U. S. stage, who can read a line like "God, man, haven't you any tect?" as if it were a minute masterpiece of wit, and who is reported to be so dissatisfied with the work of Manhattan laundries that he sends his soiled linen home every week to England...
Died. Charles Partlow ("Chic") Sale, 51, rube vaudevillian and author (The Specialist); of lobar pneumonia; in Hollywood. Originally a bewhiskered mimic of old hicks, he was famed for his earthy, hayseed wit, his tearful portrayal of a G.A.R. veteran scuffling down the road to the poorhouse. Proud of his resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, he made the privy theatrically acceptable...
Major weakness of Clutch and Differential is his tendency to ride his theme so hard it becomes burlesque, to cheapen the wit of his stories with sophomoric horseplay...