Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parody surrealism in particular and loony modernism in general-a "Faker Show" which owed much to the high spirits of versatile, 57-year-old Alexander Oscar Levy, onetime Society president. Parodies of surrealism are imperiled by an inevitable resemblance to surrealism itself. Buffalo objects with a triumphant element of wit included...
Seven hundred and eighty-third deputy inspector Murphy J. Murphy, of the Post Office Department delivered another telling blow when he banned Lampy from the mails. "Such smut!" he stormed. "Imagine publishing a parody of 'Breezy Stories'! Wit pitch-as, too. Geez, wot nudes, wot frivolity. It stinks. Enough is enough...
...Revolt" carries on Pi Eta Theatricals' tradition of musical comedy. The story, dealing inevitably with a mythical land, a dictatorship, and the bumpy road to love, is unimportant, although its complications require so much exposition that little room is left for irrelevant wit. Fortunately the play's barbed remarks are confined to local institutions...
...favorite spot for poets and painters and when Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, paid regular visits incognito (with the whole town informed) to the villa of the Duchess Caracciolo. Later on Blanche knew the great houses of London, and pays an eloquent tribute to Mary Hunter, whose wit and beauty inspired Henry James, George Moore, Rodin, Sargent and himself. One of his stories about her gives the slightly archaic flavor of his worldly revelations, which sound like something out of Proust. When Rodin was working on a bust of Mary Hunter he praised her beauty, kissed her hand...
...career; his Liberalism and his love of property, his pity for the Irish peasantry and his opposition to Home Rule, his artistic bent and his fantastic taste in furnishing his country house, Clandeboye, which included everything from cannons to totem poles. These contradictions he treats with disarming irony, wit, charm of style. In his typically English dialect of delicate understatement Nephew Nicolson limns Lord Dufferin's "generosity of soul," his touching love for his mother (for whom he built an elaborate shrine which he called Helen's Tower), his extraordinary charm, his genius for winning colonies without battles...