Word: witness
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...radio. The phonograph was fast evolving into the basis for a recording industry. By 1912, 5 million Americans a day were attending a new entertainment called movies. New Orleans echoed with the sounds that were jumbling together gloriously as jazz. Denizens of Tin Pan Alley were polishing the wit and jaunty lyricism of the pop song and revamping European operetta into an original American theater form: the musical...
William F. Weld '66 capped of a day of speeches at yesterday afternoon's College Class Day ceremonies with the wit and charm that made him a popular governor of Massachusetts...
Weld's dry humility, spontaneous wit and uncanny ability to craft tri-lingual puns were not simply accouterments donned to retain his State House office. They have served him consistently from the Hasty Pudding to his battles on the Hill...
...case included in the book is a poem called "The Connecticut Wit," written to convince the Connecticut Constitutional Convention to pass the Constitution...
DIED. LORD CUDLIPP, 84, sire of the modern British tabloid who ruled his Fleet Street subjects with a tart tongue and irreverent wit; in Chichester, England. A reporter at age 14 and an editor at 24, he later took charge of the Daily Mirror and shocked its sleepy circulation--and sober content--with bold headlines, pro-Labour positions (dubbing Britain "too damn smug"), prurience (he ran the first photo of a topless beauty) and pluck...