Word: eyewitnesser
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There are various ways of looking at the past: through rose-colored spectacles, through the wrong end of a telescope, or- by an imaginative effort of which few are capable-face to face. Josephine Herbst's method is neither bespectacled nor telescopic, nor is it a personal, Proustian total...
Julia lived in an exciting world, and knew it. She heard Adelina Patti sing, was carried away by Johann Strauss's conducting, thrilled to Col. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte's eyewitness account of Balaclava, wrote exclamation-filled pages on the Franco-Prussian War, and mourned, as even a poor...
Now he is writing a great historical novel of the Russia in which his life has been passed. Two volumes called Bystander and The Magnet (TIME, April 14, 1930 & April 27, 1931) have appeared; Other Fires is the third, next to last. Proletarian novels (say strict Communists) must have no...
Capt. Heinen was seated in one of the wide-armed Press chairs, painstakingly writing notes of testimony, when the judge advocate called him to the witness stand. Taking the jumbled jigsaw bits of eyewitness testimony, he fitted them against his own background of experience:
Two hours later Manager Mizer retrieved some of his lost ground by broadcasting over a large CBS hookup an eyewitness account of the attack.