Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Chicago's Palmer House, nine men and women calling themselves naprapaths, without the wit of Hunter or Bentham, without the reverence of the Egyptians, made shocking news by having a skeleton as honor guest at breakfast...
...Manhattan was distinctly unimpressed. Editor Ross had made the colossal mistake of starting to print his magazine before he had anything worth while to print. He could not write; he knew few writers. Inarticulate, impatient, fiercely temperamental, he could not quickly teach others the elusive quality of wit which alone would suit him. In two months The New Yorker's initial 15,000 circulation had dwindled to 8,000, and it was losing $8,000 a week. Every Monday morning Mr. Fleischmann found on his desk a large bill for the deficits. Hopelessly discouraged, the founders came within...
FRIENDS AND ROMANS-Virginia Faulkner-Simon & Schuster ($2). If the recent heat wave had done nothing more than bring this ephemeral bloom to flower, it was worth it. Seldom has a first novel been written with higher good humor or a more disarming wit than Virginia Faulkner's Friends and Romans.* A "comico-romantic novel," it breaks nobody's bones or butterflies, lets no threatening skeletons loose on a frightened world, hurls no manifesto, literary or political. Pertinacious sniffers might accuse Author Faulkner of abetting James Joyce in attempting to restore the pun as an honest figure...
...Congress: he is rivaled only by Illinois' Lewis for high-flown eloquence and bookish wit. He chairmans the potent Judiciary Committee, belongs to the Indian Affairs, Irrigation & Reclamation, Public Lands & Surveys Committees, all important to the political welfare of Arizona. He is not famed for elaborate addresses to his colleagues, but Congressional Records of the past 22 years have been enriched by pungent "remarks" from "the War Eagle of the San Francisco Crags," "the Silver-Tongued Sunbeam of the Painted Desert...
Marriage Revealed. Dorothy Rothschild Parker, 40, poetess, wit; and Alan Campbell, 26, actor; in Westbury, L. I.; in October. Seeking Divorce. Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of President Roosevelt; from Curtis Bean Dall; in Reno (see p. 9). Seeking Divorce. Charlotte Charlton Leonard; from University of Wisconsin Professor William Ellery Leonard, 58, poet, author (Two Lives, The Locomotive God); in Madison, Wis. Died. Charles ("Chuck") Gardiner, 29, star goaltender for the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, three times winner of the Georges Vezina trophy for the leading goaltender of the National League; of a tumor of the brain; in Winnipeg...