Word: wits
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...work and did it with some effect. Her lines could be understood in every instance while Miss Wertheim's arpeggios were often lost in the rafters. The latter had a difficult role as Mary Magdalen and articulated through it in a creditable fashion. The lowest form of wit seemed to tickle Unicorn, H. B. Wesselman '32, too often for the best delivery of his lines. Seven cocktails in a coffin, drunk on the way to boredom by R. R. Wallstein '32 as the Mandarin, were drunk with effect on the sparsely planted audience. The rest of the cast did well...
...whole cast failed to give the impression that the characters were clever when their lines were clever. The auditor could not forget that it is the author who has the wit. By the time the Cambridge rehearsals are over, Boston might attend a more polished production...
...many tales told of Whistler's egotism, belligerent wit, publicity-seeking dandyism, Biographer Laver reproduces a ruthless cross-section, adds a few to the collection. Though the expatriate Whistler never wholly succeeded in acclimatizing himself in England, though he always regarded the British as Philistines, called them "the Islanders," Laver gives an instance of how super-English Whistler became on the question of money. He once presented a bill for 2.000 guineas. His client thought the price excessive; the bill was finally settled for £1,000. But to Whistler "the difference between a pound and a guinea...
Last year Belle Livingstone, no longer young but still a shrewd businesswoman, conducted a "salon of culture, wit and bonhommie" on Manhattan's Park Avenue - a lurid house of night where people sat on cushions on the floor and drank until daylight. Federal officers raided it, arrested the proprietress and three bartenders. Visitors to her Mecca of Merriment last week saw Miss Livingstone in a black dress dotted with symbolic sunflowers, saw also a large house, three of whose floors are occupied respectively by dancehall and stage, salon and bar, ping-pong and Tom Thumb golf rooms. Specially designed...
...Club Cook Book scorns frippery and froufrou, sets forth many a plain but seasonable and spicy appetizer, many a hearty pièce de résistance. Like its author's conversation these recipes are blunt but pointed, dipped in the salty wit of good sense. Unusual among politicians. Dr. Browne says what he thinks; unique among cookbook authors, he gives many a flat decision on moot questions of food & drink. "Beaten biscuits are biscuits horribly beaten before they are cooked and may be used as golf-balls afterward.'' Of a Clover Club cocktail he says, "It's an awful mixture...