Word: witness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been under "intensive observation" for months, said the FBI, which charged that he had "induced another to obtain plans, documents and writings relating to the Yellowstone, a U.S. destroyer tender." The information, it added, "was to be used to the advantage of a foreign nation, to wit: the U.S.S.R...
...confused with wit-wandering Rudolf Hess, now on trial at Nürnberg...
Kate Greenaway owes much of her fame to Color-Printer Edmund Evans, who discovered and sponsored her, and engraved her drawings. Another of Evans' discoveries was Randolph Caldecott, born in 1846, whose centenary was also celebrated last week. Kate Greenaway envied Caldecott's wit. Most illustrators were more inclined to envy Caldecott's sure sense of movement, which set a new standard for fast action on paper. His books (John Gilpin's Ride, Three Jovial Huntsmen, etc.) were as boyish and gay as Greenaway's were girlish and sweet...
...also get a reminder of the little-known, proud, self-secluded man who was not only one of England's finest lyric poets, but also one of the three or four great classical scholars of our time. His scholarly notes, reviews, letters and conversation contained a deftness of wit which Pope could hardly equal, and blasts of virulence which Swift could hardly surpass. But the anniversary chiefly celebrates Housman's poetry. Why has it been so much loved, by so many; and how, after 50 years, does it stand...
George Santayana, a wit once said, "believes that there is no God and that Mary is His mother." Last week the suavest living philosopher further compounded the paradox. At 82, he published The Idea of Christ in the Gospels (Scribner; $2.75), probably his most important book. It is also probably the most devout book ever written by an unbeliever: it suggests that' Santayana is a far better Christian, and scarcely less orthodox, than the vast majority of believers...