Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steering committee of Democrats, Montana's Walsh, New York's Wagner, Arkansas' Robinson, studied compromise programs. They brought back several and out of the amendment boiling-pot one was finally concocted, to wit: a $750,000,000 Federal appropriation, half of which would be given the States outright for road construction, the other half to be loaned to States whose Governors, promising laws for repayment, certified that their relief agencies were no longer operative. An alternate proposal by New York's Senator Wagner, wise to joblessness, was that the money be apportioned to States on the basis of their unemployment...
...Freeman is a grandson of Dr. William Williams Keen, famed Philadelphia surgeon and wit. who fortnight ago celebrated his 95th birthday...
...When Mr. Truex substitutes powdered sugar for the cyanide things begin to look very dark for him indeed. He saves himself and his fiancee by the neatest trick of the melodramatic season. Whistling In The Dark is not a candidate for the Pulitzer Prize, but it has wit, freshness...
...Life" ends and the new begins, people will take down the dusty bound volumes reflecting that "Its foe was folly, and its weapon wit...
...disorder was initiated without doubt by a militant minority of the right, whose lead was followed by listeners in search of diversion, who with true Gallic wit took pleasure in causing discomfiture to over serious and self-important pacifists. Yet it is also a sign of the overbearing attitude which most nations adopt when they find themselves in a position of supremacy. Kipling wrote his "Recessional" to moderate this spirit. The Germans earned the epithet of "Huns" by crudely and needlessly antagonizing civilized society when they were in the ascendancy. The French would do well to see that they...