Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mother to all the intellectual neophytes whose only excitement is her weekly reception, where they hang upon the lips of Asphyxia and her friends and pay less attention to the "flow of soul" than to the material formations in corsets and crinoline. And many is the moody tit-bit dedicated to this young lady who fully appreciates the satisfactory character of a husband who has "struck oil" and reviews such contributions as the following with discreet reserve...
...scholarly spirit. This is fast coming true in conduct as in work. "Indeed, one sometimes becomes apprehensive lest the sense of humor may be dying out at Harvard," says Mr. Hale rather extravagantly, "and it is with something like a feeling of relief that one reads of such a bit of mischief as that recent one (conducted, it seems, in a perfectly orderly manner), whereby some sixty students made public confession of their conversion, for a simple evening, to Mr. Oscar Wilde's gospel of dress...
Willie Edouin will continue for another week at the Gaiety with his amusing "Dreams," which, however, is not as good a performance as it formerly was. Miss Atherton is getting just a little bit passee, but, as an Irish critic remarked, let us hope that she may outgrow...
...such a heinous piece of business as we were guilty of here. At the risk of self-repetition, we should like to quote again, for the American's benefit, Mr. Wilde's own comment upon the affair : "If you mean those scholars at Boston (laughing heartily), that was a bit of school-boy fun, not meant in any sort of malice." After all this, why should so fair a paper as the American persist in judging us so harshly, when even our own Crimson, ardent admirer and exponent of Mr. Wilde as it is, sees nothing to condemn...
...productions appeared during a few months in 1879. This sheet was entitled Le Quartier Latin: Journal Humoristique, Litteraire et Scientifique, and it promised to be the 'organ of the wants and pleasures of the students.' Tales, madrigals, sonnets, anecdotes and jokes filled its columns; there was scarcely a serious bit of writing in it. Now, the young men with journalistic talent send their contributions to such papers as the Beaumarchais, the Jeune France and the Parnasse, but the quarter has no special literary organ that represents its interests and advocates its claims. . . . The slang of the Parisian student...