Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Swiss Family Robinson," by Owen Wister, which many will remember as a very bright travestry in the Lampoon last year, has been published in a neat form by Mr. Sever. The local hits are very clever, and the little work well deserves a place as an odd piece of literary bric-a-brac in every student's library...
Next week Maggie Mitchell, who has been drawing very cultivated audiences this week at the Park, will appear in her two great and best known impersonations of "Jane Eyre" and "Mignon." Miss Mitchell has long been a favorite to Boston audiences, especially in the clever dramatization of "Wilhelm Meister," and will be remembered with pleasure by theatre-goers long after she passes from the stage of life...
...elysium. On the opening night Rice's Opera Comique Company will present "Cinderella at School," a charming operetta whose libretto is founded on a Harvard-Yale race. Mr. Rice's company is one unusually well adapted to the production of this kind of entertainment, and embraces some extremely clever actresses...
...average male intellect could see so utterly soul-destroying in a very becoming mode of dressing the hair. But you know that a certain minister went so far as to forbid the young ladies of his church wearing the alluring bang. Of course you have read Mr. Grant's clever little book, "Confession of a Frivolous Girl," and perhaps you know many, many Alice Palmers, and some who flirt even more than did the lovely blonde or pretty Daisy Miller. Yet surely no one would say that the girls of today are not as good as those that our grandfathers...
...Wide Awake for May will contain Charles Kingsley's ballad, "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever," set to music by Professor Paine...