Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...property, from which the missionary voice has not echoed of late, was, through the good offices of Mr. Solomon, an extremely profitable investment. Scarcely captions either is the suggestion that Christ Temple, Inc., has made good use of its tax exemption privilege. The posthumous reports of Mr. Solomon's wit may be exaggerated, but he surely told no one he was conducting an athletic organization." If the Pentecostal brethren chose to believe that he was somnolence or mendacity must be their alternatives. And Rip van Winkle must yield to Mr. Pecksniff in the fine art of spinning law suits...
...George Moore, Yeats, "A. E.," Synge, James Stephens, and James Joyce, his famous fellow-townsmen. Despite the brilliance of this company, Gogarty always fascinates his friends. When he talks, piling imagination with breath-taking invention, they listen and remember. One of his companions describes him as "overflowing with wit, gaiety, laughter, and Aristophanic joy." It was in Gogarty's garden that George Moore conceived the idea for "Ave, Salve, Vale." An apple tree in Gogarty's garden was the inspiration for Moore's "Tree of Vision." Gogarty himself is the Buck Mulligan in Joyce's "Ulysses...
...Gogarty is more than a wit. Recently in "An Offering of Swans" and "Wild Apples" he surprised his closest friends by writing lyrics as precise as heaven gems or as delicate as a beautiful change of light. The talk is expected to be one of the outstanding cultural events of the year...
...greater man than Shakespeare, has now written a fable that will further shock the righteous. In it he puts himself on a level with Voltaire. Christ and Mohammed; he is a hero and the God of the Old Testament is a bogey-villain. In spite of his destructive wit which many even nowadays call blasphemous. Iconoclast Shaw is a kindly soul; like the light-hearted pessimist, his good nature keeps breaking through. Choleric colonels might take their apoplectic death from reading The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, and the Cambridge (England) public library has barred...
...first mentioned book is a compilation of new facts from Elizabethan Courts of Law and other sources which relate directly to such men as John Lyly, a master of comedy and wit; Lodowick Dryskett, the friend of Sponser; and Sir George Bue, Master of the Revels and Censor of Plays...