Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clifton Webb, Estelle Winwood, and Hope Williams have teamed up to instill life and pace into the vast windy spaces of Wilde's epigrammatic concoction. Wilde was a clever dramatist, but drunk with his own scintillating wit; as a result the first act is long-winded and talky. After that an excellent cast makes the most of the play's indisputable Victorian charm...
...citation, read by David McCord '21, president of the Signet Associates, said "Gluyas Williams: Distinguished artist in black and white, whose satire, wit, and diverging sympathies have colored countless drawings in our national press...
...wit, a detective-story writer (The Viaduct Murder), for twelve years Roman Catholic chaplain at Oxford University, is Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 51, one of England's three most urbane and influential Catholic priests.* Published in the U. S. this week was Monsignor Knox's latest book, Let Dons Delight.†. To many a reader, Catholic and non-Catholic, this work will bring delight. To others, including many U. S. Catholics who find it difficult to comprehend the lightheartedness and apparent irreverence of their European coreligionists, the book will be shocking...
...doubly enjoyable to find good writing in a journal whose undergraduate contributors have often had crippling struggles with the mother tongue, and likewise to find controversy conducted with wit, urbanity, and detachment...
...June 29, probably in the Yankee Stadium. Delighted, Tony bit the cap off a beer bottle (see cut), galumphed off for a swim, pausing to write in the sand with a pudgy forefinger: "Tony Galento, heavyweight champ." When he porpoised back he predicted: "I'll flatten dat bum wit' one punch...