Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlivening of Class Day, its rejuvenation, does not entail unearthing a new traditions which have died a natural death. The problem is one of cultivating those which already exist, and of providing further embellishments for eye, ear, and wit to meet the anticipation of those who attend. The rush of Seniors to graduate schools, or to fortunately obtained employment lessons the outstanding significance of Commencement to a large number of men. Class Day can be revamped and returned to a semblance of its former hearty self if the exercises are arranged to provide more substantial nourishment for the Harvard tempered...
...bowels of Lampy, but his Einstein united the venerable magazine, too well. Year by year Plympton street observers have heard the dinner boll ring, and observed the Jester and his crow grow fatter and fatter on Arthur's food, till the bright sparklings of pristine wit grow don and failed, overlaid with the thick roll of fleshy matter...
There has been much criticism of the Happy Warrior's platform conduct during the past week. He has shown too much bitterness and given too much time to the campaign of 1928; his untutored informality and ponderous wit have precluded serious attention to affairs of great import; his reference to the Democratic standard bearers has been to casual, too brief to win them support. Finally, his Newark and Boston speeches have come too late in the game to produce anything in the way of response at the polls...
Combining the marriage, divorce, and remarriage plot that made "Private Lives" such a delightfully uncertain nightmare, "Springtime for Henry" also introduces the libertine bachelor caught in the threes of "a pure love for a pure woman." There are some really excellent opportunities here for wit, satire, and unrestrained nonsense which Benn Levy utilizes to their full possibilities. Free from the elements of moral responsibility, and the philosophy of Bortrand Russell which ruin some very effective comic situations in "Cynara," this farce is not diluted with any common-sense...
...Isaacs wit which the U. S. public had heard about but did not see last week was visible on an occasion when Lloyd-George publicly addressed him in Welsh. Rufus Isaacs replied in Hebrew, "and nobody knew the difference...