Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. In consciously picturesque manner, Author Prezzolini quickens hazy impressions of the man Machiavelli, details a rather commonplace life in a rich setting of mediaeval Florence, declares nothing too trivial to report of so great a man. But the essence of that greatness, to wit, the political theory which influenced Napoleon, Mussolini, remains unanalyzed but for the textbook generalities...
Editor White once called his stout political friend, Nominee Curtis, a "nit wit." Asked, last week, if he was still of that opinion, Editor White said: "I am. Go ahead. They'll probably prove that I beat my wife...
Queen Victoria once advised Cosmo Gordon Lang, long before he became Archbishop of York, to marry. He answered: "If I have a curate who is unsatisfactory, I can dispose of him, but a wife is another matter." Last week Victoria's grandson named the wit to be the 97th Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England, effective Nov. 12. He will be the first bachelor to have held that office for 150 years. Randall Thomas Davidson, present Archbishop of Canterbury, has been married 50 years. November 12 will mark the golden wedding anniversary of his wedding with Edith...
Testifying to Obregon's wit, last week...
Irishfolk applauded Charles A. A. Bennett, Yale faculty wit and philosopher, last week, when he said in Dublin, Ireland: "The British humorous weekly Punch presents distorted, snobbish, and inaccurate pictures of American life and manners in its cartoons. . . . Wars tend to be provoked by such fostering of ignorant prejudices. . . . Much of the American slang distorted by Punch is vigorous and expressive instead of vulgar...