Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McDuff received a court warrant from nearby Cullman County calling for the arrest of one John D. Chambliss, who "gave a challenge in words and in person to fight in combat a duel with John Stevens and Erwin Stevens and to fight a duel with a deadly weapon, to wit, a pistol.'' Swearer of the warrant was Farmer Erwin Stevens...
...write upon almost anything, including how they enjoy visiting their sister-in-law because of the way she makes fudge, but warning them that essays on camping will be automatically thrown out. So cavalier a tone is highly commendable: it tells the new men that they have an urbane wit to deal with, and that appeals for special dispensations will not receive very indulgent consideration...
...Gershwin's own deft language, "I'm seeking phrases to sing his praises." But, better -let him speak for himself to show your reviewer Mr. Gershwin has not only the lightest touch in the business but also the most penetrating wit...
Boston seems to have a plethora of good pictures to offer this week, and Loew's State and Orpheum crashes through with "Night Must Fall." If not in the mood for a thriller, "Night Must Fall' will seem a dull treatise on a pathological nit-wit; on the other hand it may give you the most exciting two hours of entertainment in many moons...
...cannot write too enthusiastically about these meetings with Mr. Santayana. I came to discuss a thesis on his philosophy but I've stayed to be charmed by his cordiality, his wit and his kindness. He lives alone here in Rome in modest rooms on the top floor of the Hotel Bristol. When I first saw him he was with Mr. Daniel Cory, his assistant, and was dressed in a dressing gown and slippers, as he wrote me I would find him. One day perhaps I shall send you an account of the more serious aspect of our conversations but suffice...