Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glimpse of a man with a Durante nose and a gleam of cunning in his eye. Less than half the crowd stayed through his 40-minute speech in Persian. Those who waited for the translation got only a tired tirade against the British, and one Mossadegh proposal, to wit, that the U.S. should lend him money...
...Players club in Manhattan staged a 70th birthday surprise party for their friend and noted wit, Franklin P. Adams Highlight of the evening: a special edition of "The Conning Tower," F.P.A.'s old newspaper column. The contributors included Edna Ferber, Louis Untermeyer, and the playwriting team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse who sounded the keynote of the celebration...
There was, however, one unpleasant occurrence on Saturday: to wit, the meeting between the Princeton and Yale freshman elevens. Princeton won, but the unpleasant part is that both teams went into the game undefeated and untied. This bodes pretty badly for the future...
...Lavender Hill Mob. Alec Guinness, as an engaging master criminal in a superior British concoction of wit and farce (TIME...
Debating is not a spectacle (as a flea circus or a cock-fight is). It is an exercise in articulative facility and quick wit. It is intended to entertain no one except the participants. The relation you find between lack of spectators and last week's double loss to Yale is beyond the grasp of all natural intellects...