Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irishman, and therefore a wit, Mr. Leslie manages to compress many an event into a memorable epigram, and he can describe many a contemporary personage with the economy natural to metaphor. The immorality that accompanied night-clubs is chronicled wittily in this adaptation of Holy Writ; a night-club is a place...
...York, Oct. 22--There wasn't anything wrong with English wit when the British Sloop Scarborough arrived today. Her commander, O. W. Cornwallis, descended from the Lord Cornwallis described himself as belonging to the family "which founded the United States of America...
Since the early Spring of 1934, he has campaigned up and down this state driving his own flivver, speaking two and three hours at a time then hurrying to some other locality for another speech, and he has charmed and thrilled the masses with his scintillating intellect, his wit, and humor, his Irish pathos, and his dauntless determination to serve his fellow countrymen. He has had arrayed against him nearly every newspaper, practically all the wealth, and influential politicians of the state. ... I dare say, his victory in this campaign will go clown in American history as the very greatest...
...many a character in this book. Like other less scrupulous authors, Waugh uses some of his funniest incidents (Tony and Mrs. Rattery playing a card game while his little son is lying dead upstairs) to point his pathos. A Handful of Dust is a cunningly contrived cinema of cold wit, tender humor, impersonal satire, shameless, but effective hokum. Only a rare reader will be able to sit it through unmoved either to a smile or a sigh. The total effect is sinister. Author Waugh must be credited with having written a novel truly representative of an age which is partly...
Senator William John Bulow of South Dakota, tobacco-chewing wit whom Will Rogers calls "funnier than I am." The Senate has yet to be shown...