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Word: witnessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness, as an engaging master criminal in a superior British concoction of wit and farce (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 10, 1951 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...cheer dint of his own personality and wit, Father Feeney has won support and attention with sentiments that have been laughed at when voiced by others. He is training his students, he claims, to carry his doctrine "to every common and public square in greater Boston...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Father Feeney, Rebel from Church, Preaches Hate, Own Brand of Dogma to All Comers | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...Paint Your Wagon suffers less from a shortage of women than from a shortage of wit, from imagining that copious research is a substitute for bright conversation. This defect is an unfortunate handicap for a show that is otherwise a pleasant enough addition to the Broadway scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness, as an engaging master criminal in a superior British concoction of wit and farce (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...introduction, it is blood & sweat money. Always a deadline worker, Arno lashes himself through grueling 24-and 36-hour stints. Credited with inventing the one-line caption, Arno says: "I suppose it appealed to me particularly because my English grandfather . . . had taught me that brevity was the soul of wit-a surprising maxim to come from a lifelong reader of Punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful & Weird | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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