Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dear sun waning and Death, be cause he laughed at it, "coming to him like a raillery." Author Ryner has well conjured the situations - Cervantes in Madrid, surrounded by poverty, influential enemies and with Death for a friend in need. Cervantes in Esquivias, draining the gay fountain of his wit, writing a happy and fantastic story as if thus to postpone the conclusion of his own fantasy
...this latest collection of short stories, presented as "The Behind Legs of the Orse", he is true to this tradition of his. Lacking in the comic sense, without wit, he occasionally approaches humor with, even then, a fixed uncertainty of attack. As a humorist, Mr. Butler is a good director of the Flushing National Bank: as a short story writer, he is an excellent trout fisherman, a good poker player...
...subsequent comment on the impending struggle between the new and the old representatives of the wit that emanates from colleges says: "A third competitor has now entered the field in the form of the Princeton 'Tiger': and although no judgement can fairly be made from a single number, and that a first issue, it seems likely that the 'Tiger' may prove itself some time a rival by no means to be despised. Naturally we doubt if the 'Lampoon' is in any imminent danger of being surpassed by either the 'Spectator' or the 'Tiger', but a healthy and friendly emulation...
...dancing and delicate wit inhabit Author Wassermann's mediaeval romancing to a far greater extent than his sombre psychological studies of modern Germany (Gold, Faber, Wedlock). Translator Otto P. Shinnerer puts no strings across the bright lawn of prose on which Author Wassermann's imagination whirls in a dexterous Bergamask...
...mind yerself, Pansy! Don't 'ave no truck wit sailors...