Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After brooding over the unequal struggle between writers and tax collectors, A. P. Herbert, author, wit and longtime M.P., wrote a letter to the editor of the London Times: ". . . We sell capital and it is treated as income. The work of three years is taxed in one. We have a sudden success, after lean years, and soar into the regions where we are allowed to keep only a few shillings in every pound. Such a success cannot often be repeated . . . It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up in the tax race. If something is not done for us soon...
Bishop Corson had strong views on tw other matters: 1) U.S. relations with th Vatican, and 2) a Methodist merger wit the Protestant Episcopal Church. Presider Truman, said the bishop, "set back th movement of religious cooperation 75 year by his injection of the Vatican issue." A for the Episcopalians, there is no chance of a merger so long as they insist that Methcdist ministers must be first re-ordaine by Episcopal bishops. Said Methodist Coi son: "If the Episcopalians want union, a they need to do is declare John Wesley de facto bishop...
...flavor which separates this book from other Bemelmans, however, is derived from the title ploy, identified as "The Delicate Art of Self-Aggrandizement"--previously discussed by the English wit, Stephen Potter, as "Lifesmanship...
...professor of English at Northwestern University, Bergen Evans brings to TV a nicely turned academic wit and an impressive fund of miscellaneous information ("When Queen Victoria became a Knight of the Garter, she had it put on her arm, not her leg"). He first showed his debunking talents in his 1946 book, The Natural History of Nonsense, which shied irreverent rocks at some of mankind's most venerable myths. Before Down You Go, Evans made trial TV runs on several local shows, recalls that one of them was so bad it was watched "only by members of my immediate...
...wordy book about the era when the movies were learning to talk is a rather strenuous satire, without much warmth or wit. Kelly is a silent-film favorite who makes the transition to talkies with the help and kibitzing of sidekick Donald O'Connor. Jean Hagen is Kelly's beautiful-but-not-so-bright leading lady whose squeaky voice is not O.K. for sound. Debbie Reynolds, the girl hired to do Jean's behind-the-camera talking and singing, finally wins both public acclaim and Kelly...