Word: witnessed
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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 Pritchett's new novel, Mr. Beluncle, is in his best short-story grain. He has a mischievous eye for suburban pomposity, he invents delightfully loony characters, he writes with crisp wit. The opening 50 pages weave a fine picture of "mind-sharpening, heart-deadening warfare" between a middle-aged husband and wife. But then something goes wrong...
Verneuil has written a brittle farce which is supposed to rely on quick, fast, clever dialogue for its wit. The lines are uniformly poor and the plot so trite that the courageous efforts of Miss Rogers and her supporting cast can bring only sympathetic applause from a thoroughly respectful audience...
Punning-as you no doubt know-is considered a low form of what some folks call wit...
...literary stock exchange, the novels of England's Henry Green rate well up among the blue chips. Readers of Loving, Nothing and Concluding collected dividends in wit and wisdom. Party Going, the sixth of Green's eight slim novels to be published in the U.S., proves that Green can put out penny stock...