Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms, since no bankers would fight their monopoly. After five years of dickering I. R. T.'s then President Theodore P. Shonts put on a great show of letting the city get the better side of the bargain. A man of wit, he remarked: "I was fairly well dressed when I went into that room, but they've taken away everything but my shirt." To enable Mr. Shonts to dress again I. R. T. promptly recompensed him with a $150,000 bonus and doubled his salary...
...American humor is steadily moving towards French wit," said Andre Maurois, distinguished French author and scholar, in an interview last night. "It is the influence of city life on American authors that is bringing this change, most evident in the humor of such typical publications as "The New Yorker," he continued...
...moment of vexation, he wondered if Orson Welles and Burgess Meredith were really worth all this. But Vag fought to subdue his sudden spurt of misanthropy and pushed on. After all, he told himself, he was about to have an opportunity to absorb the liquid words and sly wit of two great Thespians, and absolutely gratis, to boot. True, it wasn't a performance of "The Five Kings," but it was an interview, and Vag guessed that he was going to enjoy himself immensely asking them all sorts of questions. Of course it wasn't a private interview...
...humour and wit of past Don Marquis stories are not lacking in his last novel, "Sons of the Puritans", concerning the life of a boy in the small-town atmosphere of Hazelton, Illinois. Still, the undercurrent which flows through the whole book is one of tragedy. For Marquis the tragic and comic are not conflicting elements, but intermingle to make up life itself...
Although it calls for a woman of charm and wit, Miss Lawrence's role at the same time portrays selfishness, conceit, superficiality, self-consciousness and scarcely an ounce of sincerity. That she can play such a part and still hold her audience entranced is a tribute to the debonair Lawrence of England. Her precise timing, her walk, her little habit of patting her bosom and her clothes (by Hattic Carnegie) all contribute to the ensemble, but Miss Lawrence achieves most of her effect with her voice. Like none which she has used in the past, it ranges from the affected...