Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some Measure of Wit...
...fellow-traveler in a smoking car one day: "My line's skirts, what's yours?" Replied goateed, twinkling William Allan Neilson, president of Smith College: "That's my line, too." Smith's Neilson, 70, retires this month, after 21 years as president, indisputably the first wit among U. S. college presidents, as well as one of the most successful heads of U. S. women's colleges. Smith's girls adore him and hope that his successor also will be a man. Wellesley's girls are proud of woman's intellectual stature...
...from one of the ablest of U. S. priests, Monsignor Fulton John Sheen (who also instructed Convert Mann). Columnist Broun will be received into the Church late this month. Thereafter he may well become the U. S. equivalent of a famed British convert-the late Gilbert Keith Chesterton, stylist, wit, rough-&-tumble fighter for the Faith...
...diluted version of the racy Broadway hit, "Yes, My Darling Daughter" has done a fairly remarkable job of hedging around the censors. Aside from a couple of ludicrous lines about "trusting" the younger generation, the picture manages to preserve a great deal of the wit and comedy that made the play...
With humor and wit throughout. Professor Mott easily handles the thousand details and the prolonged research that has gone into the book, and puts forth a work that is at once scholarly and readable...