Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazing old man of 79 spoke slowly, and his lisp was more pronounced. But the wit was as nimble as ever, and the orotund prose as incomparable. In a sly reference to his reputation as a brandy drinker, he called for a glass of water and downed it, remarking with a twinkle: "I only do it to show you that I can." Churchill hailed Eden's achievement at London as "a monument and a milestone in our march toward peaceful coexistence," paid generous tribute to the U.S. (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES), spoke again, wistfully, of his dream of coexistence with...
...School Tie is a mode for all aspirants to the best seller ranks. It reads easily, it shows a fine, light wit. And to escape the label of giddy, it spoon feeds serious overtones to its readers with the subtlety and originality of an Evangelist preacher...
...Wit & Charm. Since Stalin's death, wrote Salisbury, Communist Russia has undergone a complete "new look" as drastic as any change in its whole history. In the face of domestic turmoil the new leaders of Russia have abandoned "Stalin's bludgeon for more graceful tactics." Russia is now ruled not by a single dictator but by a group or junta. In comparison to Stalin ("Georgian suspicions, a mountaineer's narrow hatreds . . . the midnight habits of a proscribed revolutionary, the wolflike morals of a hunted bank robber") Salisbury found the junta composed of an outwardly pleasant bunch...
...fiery girl reporter (Marcia Henderson), who "meets cute" with Lawford as both try to enter the same swinging door; the hardboiled, conscienceless managing editor (Charles Lane); the brash but dumb copy boy (Joe Corey). Faced with all these predictable characters and situations, Lawford still manages to infuse some wit and awareness into the stereotyped proceedings. But what little advantage he gains is lost when Lawford and the tough city editor sit down at program's end to rhapsodize about the glories of Sponsor Campbell's soup...
...Earrings of Madame De . . . A bubbling little masterpiece of ormolu romance and French wit; with Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica (TIME, July...