Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Barbara Marquis, 13, frail daughter of Donald Robert Perry ("Don") Marquis, Manhattan wit; of pneumonia; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Like her father a talented versifier, she had lately written, edited, managed, multi-graphed and circulated a paper called The California...
...highly dangerous youth derisively leveling the shafts of his Socialistic ridicule at the respectability of tht Victorian generation. Now Mr. Shaw is himself old and must in turn submit of an examination of his work at the hands of other young men provided with a new variety of wit and insight. Mr. Briuser speaks for the readers who have grown up since the War and to whom the "Men of the Nineties" are almost as distant as the Elizabethans...
Nora Bayes, Sam Bernard, Hazel Dawn, Al Jolson and some others are sitting with Diamond Jim and Lillian, a quiet, friendly supper party with wit and wine. Miss Russell asks Miss Bayes to sing. Miss Bayes, reincarnated in electric yet mellow Ruth Etting, arises simply and simply sings "Shine on Harvest Moon." Hardened revue-goers call it the smash song of this summer on Broadway, all Little Shows and Band Wagons notwithstanding...
With lightning, devastating wit that made the Chamber roar with laughter and blunted M. Marin's attack, M. Briand shot back, "So you see me smiling in my mustache, M. Marin? Helas, I could not smile in yours...
...with an opportunity to enjoy themselves. For the authors have held the mirror up to nature (albeit a slightly imperfect mirror) and the defects of Cambridge scholars--dignity, austerity, knowledge, etc.--come through the refining process of distortion until they are seen in their true light. Fifty pages of wit and caricature at three cents per page...