Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tolley humor is, in fact, a notable disappointment. Since he first hove into the public eye, Tolley has been touted as a merry, garrulous, quip-cracking links-wit. Tales are told of his Oxford days when, in postprandial exuberance, he would harangue a blithe gathering in his rooms upon his years of study at the science of propelling a spheroid. He would then tee a ball on the carpet and drive it smashing through a closet panel. Another feat was to loft balls from the lawn of University College to the sward of Queen's College over the walls...
...Modern Golfer, the verve thus suggested seems badly buried in the bunkers of authorship. The garrulousness is there, but the wit runs so low that one joke, about a billiard player watching Vardon putt, has to be pressed into service twice...
...this novel, Mr. Hergesheimer does not borrow from a century but presents it. He has achieved a book that has the tex ture of velvet and the rigor of bright iron. His method of dating the narrative with politics and giving history's skeleton,' flesh and wit in the lives of his characters is, though a difficult artifice, perfectly persuasive. To say that we have advanced in our system of government since Revolutionary times is to say that Jefferson was right and Richard Bale was wrong. It is an opinion generally accepted. Mr. Hergeheimer, indeed, holds no brief...
...extraordinary feature of this amazing play is its persistent wit. It had to be shortened after the opening night because laughter in the audience stretched the evening until 11:30. It is humor close to the soil; sometimes it shocks; always it bites...
When Presbyterians last officially assembled (TIME, June 9) dominant Fundamentalists were persuaded by the majority Moderates to make a concession to the minority Liberals, to wit: Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick was not to be ousted from his pulpit on lower Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, provided he subscribed to the Westminster Confession of Faith. The proviso was fair...