Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly Belle's husband, whom she had divorced for a poor sucker, turned out to be a rich sucker-he died and left her $150,000. Like a shot, Belle was off to Europe, and soon her madcap manners and her saucy wit had won her a place in the social whirl around the Prince of Wales, later Edward...
...propound," says Shaw to Walkley, "a certain social substance, sexual attraction to wit, for dramatic distillation; and I distill it for you." Thus the main plot of Man and Superman, a sort of Love's Labour's Won with woman as the laborer and man as the winnings; a "serio-comic love chase"; a nimble game in dead earnest of Higher Hide-and-Seek...
Died. Henry Prather Fletcher, 86, one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders who parlayed his wartime glory into a career (1902-29) as a poker-and polo-playing diplomat, while Ambassador to Chile and later Mexico deftly deflated anti-Americanism with a caustic wit, served (1934-36) as a bumbling Old Guard chairman of the Republican National Committee when the party got its most disastrous defeats by the New Deal; in Newport...
...temper of a country is often found in its wit. In Djakarta, the capital of the island nation of Indonesia, a government official last week whispered the latest crack: "Anyone who is not totally confused is just very badly informed." Another, and more troubling, crack is that what the tropical paradise of Indonesia needs is "a_cold winter or Mao Tse-tung." Lamented the Times of Indonesia: "Tension is in the air everywhere today. The one sentiment expressed on all sides is that of frustration...
...learned more about writing from White than from anybody else," said Humorist James Thurber once of E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White, the lucid essayist whose weekly wit led off The New Yorker for years before he deserted Manhattan to write on a farm in Maine. From Thurber it was high praise, and it spoke another truth: behind every writer stands a teacher of some kind. Behind E. B. White himself, it turns out, stands the exhortative ghost of a curious and delightful man, the late Professor William Strunk Jr., proprietor of English 8 at Cornell University when White passed...