Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cakewalk (by Ruthanna Boris; music by Louis Gottschalk-Hershy Kay) takes off with wit and imagination on the traditional American minstrel show, complete with interlocutor, end men, magician, and a high-stepping Cakewalk...
...Toulouse-Lautrec's popularity stems from his frothy subject matter. He pictured a devil-may-care world of generous bosoms and high kicks, a world that is gone but kindly remembered. The man was a genius besides. His line had all the energy of a high kick, his wit surpassed his exuberance, his knowledge of the human figure equaled his delight in it, and his touch was light as lace. He designed as well as the Japanese woodcut artists whom he most admired, and for their warm-milk sentimentality he substituted an absinthe bite...
After the ninth letter, the ninth reversal, the judge committed suicide in despair. But his fiendishly omniscient correspondent quickly found other victims -a bishop, a prince, a shipping magnate, the chancellor himself. The police were at wit's end. Who was the poison-pen man? How did he come by his astonishing information...
Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables & Shakes Versus Shav, by George Bernard Shaw. The last plays of G.B.S. A bit short on wit and wind, but still full of typically Shavian flashes (TIME...
Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables & Shakes Versus Shav, by George Bernard Shaw. The last plays of G.B.S. A bit short on wit and wind, but still full of typically Shavian flashes (TIME...