Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady at all. The fact that she had been a tavern keeper's daughter had something to do with it. She was married to John Henry Eaton, Secretary of War under Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson took it upon himself to establish her social position. With her engaging Irish wit as his chief aide de camp, he succeeded...
John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benet are the authors. Possibly they imputed to Peggy Eaton a nimbler wit than they devised for her. As played by Katherine Alexander, the character caught the crackle of conviction...
Boston sustains a genuine loss. It can no longer boast of a public intelligent enough to oil the financial machinery of an enterprise which immeasurably enriched its dramatic life. The plays of problem and wit which passed behind the footlights of the Copley created an illusion that today, as a hundred years ago, Boston was close to the pulse of cosmopolitan life...
Harper Brothers has issued a set of Arthur Guiterman's light verse in brick-red jackets; and I am reminded pleasantly, on a drab morning, of this slight, serious-minded humorist of quick movements and real wit. I suspect that every really funnyman must take himself seriously. Mr. Guiterman, of course, has not confined his writing purely to gay verses. He has had serious moments not without power. To be sure Your Puppy's Valentine is not deep; but there is a poem called The Pioneer which has much grace and beauty...
...with great facility and success, without losing any of his pristine talents. His rhymed reviews in Life have charmed for years. It is a hard enough task to be a reviewer of books for several years; but to be a rhymed reviewer for many years shows a consistency of wit that deserves medals and banners...