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Word: witnessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark Twain Tonight! Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, ages, rages and charms as he brilliantly re-creates the wit and wisdom of the 70-year-old humorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Satyricon of Petronius. A bawdy belly laugh at Nero's Rome delivered by the worldliest Roman of them all and translated with unexpurgated wit by Classicist William Arrowsmith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...written twenty years ago, if you need to be told, by George S. Kaufman in collaboration with Moss Hart. Indulging their favorite practice of portraying well-known persons of their day, the dramatists wrote the play around the notorious, corpulent Alexander Woollcott, alias Mr. Sheridan Whiteside, a "critic, lecturer, wit, radio orator, intimate friend of the great and near great...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Man Comes to Dinner at the Union | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

...came to dinner at an Ohio small-town home, had a bad fall, and is enwheelchaired there for a few weeks, this production enjoys the services of Earle Edgerton, a veteran of dozens of local shows. He brings his own excellences to the outrageous personage with the slashing wit and excoriating tongue; saying and doing such things as the rest of us dare only do in our minds, he cantankers his way through the role like a bull-slinger in a Canton shop. And he tosses in lots of amusing bits of business--with fudge, with long-holdered cigarettes, even...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Man Comes to Dinner at the Union | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

Despite the fact thaat some of the dialogue is quite dated now, Kaufman's satiric wit bites through like a whiplash, and such lines as "Marriage isn't a career. It's an incident!'" are timelessly funny. The Tufts players seem to be having a wonderful time doing this period piece, and it makes enjoyable watching...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: 'Royal Family' Presented at Tufts | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

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