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Word: witness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Churchill, whilom Chancellor of the Exchequer, who enjoyed a piece of Scot MacDonald's birthday cake in New York last fall (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week Cake-giver MacDonald lashed out at Cake-eater Churchill: "You are making politics of this [coal bill] and nothing else. All your wit and polished phrases are for the sole purpose of forcing us to go to the country for another election. If you do we will beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Keen wit and undeniable ability kept Unser Anton on active service long past the legal age for retirement. Once another Austrian Archduke attempted to suggest that it was time for him to retire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Unser Anton | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Since the war Russell has turned his attention largely to questions of social nature. His writings are noted for their clarity, ready wit, and the power to reach promptly the philosophical issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BERTAND RUSSELL TO TALK IN NEW LECTURE HALL TODAY | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...hanged for anarchy. To him comes Schomburg, Bohemian psychiatrist, one of the men he has cuckolded. He offers Ibrahim freedom, on condition that he commit suicide a year later. Joyfully Ibrahim signs the pledge, escapes his prison, flirts with guests on the Schomburg yacht, crosses swords of wit with Schomburg himself, saves a little French dancer from ruffians and takes her to live with him. He wanders feverishly through Europe feeling the days slip by. When he wants to hide, Schomburg seems near, watching like a cat, keeping him in reach with a careless paw. The dancer informs Schomburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Husband v. Lover | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...spark of stage wit, the faculty of knowing when and how to break away from the regular routine speech with an immediate answer for every question, is that which distinguishes a Houdini, a Thurston, from the magician Blackstone, the feature of this week's Keith-Albee bill. Mr. Blackstone exhibits a complete performance of the accepted sleight-of-hand tricks with the ease of Keller, but he lacks the vital touch of spontaneity...

Author: By A. B. M. h, | Title: GET FRONT ROW SEATS AT KEITH-ALBEE | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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