Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virtually identical in wording, each citing as the cause for indictment the publication by the paper of the tax figures of individuals chosen at random from long lists of names published. Thus, the Baltimore Post's alleged offense was in making known the payments of five separate citizens, to wit, the Messrs. Daniel Willard (railroad man), Waldo Newcomer (capitalist), and J. Cookman Boyd, Leon C. Coblenz, Frank A. Furst (small tax-payers). None of the individuals had protested their treatment by the papers to the Government...
Students of the stage professed themselves interested. Considerable laughter arose from the benches. Yet the casual theatregoer found the wit too long drawn out, the story preposterous and the atmosphere difficult to absorb. He realized that the play was not produced for him. His more inquiring neighbor, on the other hand, quite liked...
This conclusion was derived by comparing New Brooms with the manager's greatest success, The First Year. The latter will be recalled as a genial and amazingly human comedy of married life. It lacked a plot and was replete with homely wit. New Brooms boasts a plot, little penetration and less laughter...
Such evidence of character cannot go by unnoticed the wit and cheer they spread in most trying circumstances. They had to drive their Ford coupe to Cambridge that night and, to be frank with you, Mr. Editor, I have been worried and concerned to know whether they reached home safely without mishap, and did not take pneumonia. I also hope no trouble came to them over their bottle. John A. C. Stevenson, Yale...
Here is a quaint imagination, a fine wit, a delicate style. One first thinks of it as fragile, then realizes that in reality Elinor Wylie's work would be robust were it only in consideration of her technical perfection. I like to think of her now in an old Connecticut house, surrounded by the demands of several children, yet creating quite calmly and steadily a manuscript fit to be traced upon vellum and illuminated by monks in cloisters, something rich, rare and only very gently indecorous...