Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only an accomplished singer but a talented comedian. Nonetheless, it is neither Crooner Crosby nor his songs ("Love Is Just Around the Corner," "It's June in January," "With Every Breath I Take") that make Here Is My Heart such agreeable entertainment. Aimed at intelligent audiences, written with wit, directed with a proper sense of style by Frank Tuttle, it has the immense advantage of having such performers as Roland Young, Alison Skipworth and Reginald Owen in subsidiary roles. As bedazzled, picayune Prince Nickolas, Young reveals, in urbane monosyllables, his scheme for crooked trading in used cars to replenish...
...friendly accord. There were conferences, teas, trips through the 4,500,000 fingerprint library at the Department of Justice, visits to its criminal laboratories. No small part in helping effect an entente cordiale was performed by Hostess Cecilia Waterbury Cummings, a lively brunette with gracious ways and a glib wit...
...writers of any sex or nationality can be more charmingly amusing than "Elizabeth" (Elizabeth Mary, Countess Russell), when she sets her mind to it. The Jasmine Farm shows her at her mindful best. Written with a wit so inoffensive that it is hardly perceptible, this novel will keep many a plain reader from more mischievous pursuits for a pleasant, if softening, hour...
...blackmailing social-climber, she knew the fat was in the fire. She collapsed, fled to her inaccessible cottage in France to hide her shame. Who pursued her there and what happened to make everything come out as well as could be expected is a denouement that "Elizabeth's" kindly wit just rescues from farce...
Leaving aside the question of the merits of the present incumbent, it can truthfully be said that the Ivy Orations of the last few years have done little to arouse public enthusiasm over the wit of Harvard students. The speeches occasionally have been rather amusing to read. They have contained lines which are humorous as they stand in black and white. But in the broad expanses of the Stadium they have found no resounding echoes of applause...