Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wit's End. The cops also nabbed a touring New Yorker, Martin Irving LipStein, 34, who had arrived before the killing and aroused suspicion by his eagerness to leave the next day. Lipstein produced an alibi, swearing that he had been rubbernecking at ships in the canal at the hour of gunplay, and his release was expected early this week. Dozens of others were run in. By week's end, implicitly confessing bafflement, the police were importing detectives from New York, Cuba, Costa Rica and Venezuela...
...just yet, for once again. Cole Porter has come up with nothing in the way of a worthy replacement. The success of the pleasant, second-rate Can-Can seems to have taught Mr. Porter that a catch title and a song about Paris can fill in for his undisputed wit...
...employ, and created telling juxtapositions (e.g., a bird engraved on a cat's forehead) that inspired the surrealists. He drew and painted on everything, from glass to burlap, and always with iron control. Klee's demons almost never failed him; he had them under the yoke of wit and taste...
...they were "in fair Verona, where we lay our scene." In later centuries, notably toward the end of the 19th, productions of Shakespeare became almost as richly furnished as they were badly played; but not until some 335 years after Shakespeare's death did a producer find the wit and the way to take the playwright at his word-actually to give him a kingdom for a stage...
...rather novel since it symbolizes nothing. Instead it is of the "slice of life" school, showing an adolescent nearing maturity in the course of an afternoon. With incisive, purposive dialogue Robinson goes straight to his play's problems, that of showing the boy's growth, with insight and wit. It is remarkably good...