Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minor parts, especially the barkeep's wife (Evelyn Scott) and a lecherous pants-presser (Percy Helton), are also well attended to. Producer Clarence Greene and Director Russell Rouse, who also collaborated on a competent script, deserve high credit. Having decided to serve cheap whisky, they had the wit and the courage to serve it straight...
...demitasse in the mornin' . . . He said I didn't have no sign of kodiak trouble around the heart or no coroner's trombone disease where the blood gets shut off in the artillery ... I think they call it the I Oughta . . . Everythin' was okey dokel . . . wit' my gold bladder...
...little steamed and demonstrated with him. So he says, T didn't call you a mope. I mean your pupils ain't woikin' right!' So I says, 'Oh, yeah? What's wrong wit' the way Rocky Marciano is woikin'?' " How was the respiration? "I didn't have none. I kept . . . cool." Was Al's tension all right? "You bet your life it was. As long as I was payin' so much for the checkup, I listened to every woid he said . . . The most disappointin' part . . . was when...
...learning, wit and literary talent, Herriot strode energetically through four decades of turbulent French politics. "Don't go to sleep thinking a thing is impossible," he was fond of saying. "You'll probably be awakened by the noise of somebody else doing it." He was three times Premier of France before World War II. After France fell and Petain took over, Herriot mailed his Legion of Honor decoration to Vichy. The Nazis imprisoned him in Germany, and he was three times reported dead. But he came back and set up his own little camp along the tent-speckled...
French humor prides itself on its elegantly turned irony (Anatole France) and the clean bite of its wit (Voltaire, Molière), but it also has a more modern and less celebrated side: what Parisian slang calls loufoque-zany. The practitioners of this form of Gallic humor consist of a small army of chansonniers, moviemakers, Left Bank beachcombers and cartoonists. The cartoonists have now formed an avant-garde to invade the U.S. cartoon market. Some are funny enough to get through, but most will succeed only if they catch Americans with their advance guards down, their sleeves rolled...