Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voice has no note of drawing-room or art coterie, but the tone of a slow, pondering, decisive country mind. He is a man of action, but his activity suggests the fields and not the city. He is quick with humour and not a sluggard in the matter of wit; but both his humour and his wit never suggest the smoking-room and the dinner-party, but rather the open sky and a prospect of shining hills. I think he has something of the peasant's obstinacy and is not altogether free from a certain obtuseness...
...modern English of the entire Old Testament. Acting on the principle that the King James version is a vast, unweeded garden, the Doctor has rolled up scholarly sleeves and has planted a garden where no archaisms grow. For exactly what reasons he believes that "a barge of cypress wood wit cabin accommodations" is more appropriate than ark, or that the term, park, is more comprehensible to modern readers than the Garden of Eden, remains somewhat of a mystery...
...Models. When the first revue under this trade mark appeared last year (TIME, Sept. 3, 1923), there were loud legal wranglings as to just how much of a chorus girl's costume a producer can legally eliminate. Disputes also arose as to the exact relations of wickedness and wit and to what degree the former is admissible. Accordingly, this year's edition was subject to stampede on the opening night. Those who wormed their way in (at $11 a ticket) found that the proceedings were neither as nude nor as ribald as those of the parent production. The players...
...Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious...
...good sport. I admit, to tear to pieces in Shavian wit, a play of a book or a magazine. But I doubt (this is no more than a snap judgment whose accuracy has no bearing on my argument) if even the bombastic Mr. Shaw, after ridiculing a play calls its author an idle dillettante, without first making very sure of his ground...