Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Rosebery's flashing wit has long operated as a stimulant upon the minds of all English knights of the pen who have written about him. Two of Sir James Barrie's observations are justly famous: "The first time I ever saw Lord Rosebery was in Edinburgh when I was a student, and I flung a clod of earth at him. He was a peer; those were my politics...
...Wise's comment on the "Erection of a Shrine to Buddha" in Central Park, New York City [Dec. 14 issue, p. 26]. It reads: "I wonder whether the proposal to erect a statue in Central Park to Buddha comes from Will Rogers. It is quite worthy of his fertile wit. Buddha! What's the matter with Mahomet ? What's the matter with Confucius, to say nothing of Bab? And there is a sect called the Mormons, and there was Mrs. Eddy. What's the matter with any or all of these? Let's have a nice quiet lane in Central...
...Toon received it in 1894, during Wilde's most voluptuous period. Long known for a wit and esthete, he was by then known as a full-blown decadent, approaching notoriety. The symbols of his cult were familiar to London's streets and salons?peacock feathers, sunflowers, dados, blue china, long hair, velveteen breeches. He was suffused with and satisfied only by the cloyingly sensuous in image, thought and deed. He told Mrs. Toon in his note that he was "bathing his brow in the perfume of waterlilies." The season previous his play, Salome, had been refused a license...
...fiftieth anniversary number of the Lampoon, fresh to hand, bears unhappy but strict witness to the fact that senility in the lbis sets in at an age even earlier than in humans. It is not that we lack the most profound respect for the Lampoon tradition, but it would seem that the lean years have arrived in the purlieus of Mount Auburn and Plympton Streets, for seldom have we previously been favored with such a monumental display of gratuitous imbecility, such wholesale vulgarity of the common or garden variety, or such lamentable paucity of wit and artistry as is represented...
...valedictory leader, the outgoing President of the Lampoon makes his successor beir to an "empty paste pot and a pair of shears," obviously the worn instrumeats with which a large proportion of the wit and humor of the present number was acquired, for, with the possible exception of the story which begins with the two newlyweds in a Pullamn and later contains references to oranges, there is hardly an antique and hoary wheeze which does not stage a comeback somewhere between the "Prologue" and the Tiffany (Exacting Standards) advertisement on the final page. Vide such delicatessen...