Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Stella Benson Anderson, 41, British novelist and voyageuse; of pneumonia; in Hongay, Tonking, French Indo-China. A suffraget before the War, she aspired to "wit, learning, strangeness, loneliness," went around the world six times in tramp steamers, worked on a Colorado strawberry ranch, did airplane stunting in California, was maid to an opera singer, nearly starved in Japan, shot tigers in India and taught school in China, finished a novel (The Faraway Bride) in Nanking during a Cantonese bombardment. After her marriage twelve years ago to an Irishman in the Chinese customs service she lived mostly in China, where...
Died. Frank Jenners Wilstach, 63, censor of U. S. cinemadvertising & publicity, wit, bibliophile, author, compiler of similes, sometime business manager of DeWolf Hopper, Sothern & Marlowe. Mrs. Leslie Carter, William Faversham; of influenza; in Manhattan. His famed Dictionary of Similes sprang out of his disgust for the phrase, "The news spread like wildfire." "Wildfire," he fumed, "is a disease of sheep. It is also a bolt of sheet lightning. I'm going to end this...
Last but not least of the four heroes is Pietro Aretino, the bastard guttersnipe whose effrontery and wit always kept him in high society and hot water, whose scurrilous lampoons lambasted everyone from the Pope down. One of his mildest japes: when unpopular Pope Adrian VI died, a wreath appeared on his doctor's door, inscribed: "To the Deliverer of his country, S. P. Q. R." Of the four, Aretino's end was happiest. After tremendous ups & downs he settled in Venice, waxed fat and urbane, survived a tragic love affair and went down wenching...
...very rightly, too. These social attitudes are hard to build up and equally hard to hold; they are well worth emphatic support. But a closer examination of Governor Rolph, the man, would have elicited fewer surprised and pompous tut-tuts. Quite simply, the governor is an amiable nit-wit whose capacities as an administrator were taxed to the utmost when running a city government and are hopelessly inadequate to the complicated job of manipulating the machinery of a state. Though his term contains one bright gem which made him nationally known--the unconditional refusal of Tom Mooney's petition...
...also serve who only stand and wane. Your hilarious telegram is a fine specimen of "Record" wit. We adults feel that football is a product of the newer decadence. However we will play you in the Harvard Stadium at 2 P.M., on Saturday. "Lampoon." --The Yale News...