Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Elusive Lover," by Virna Woods (Houghton, Mifflin and Co.) is a short, interesting love story with a clever plot. The characters are few and almost without exception essential to the plot. The scene is laid in California, in and about Los Angeles...
...book is one of the most amusing of the year, being filled with a good deal of clever conversation. It is moreover very simply written, and above all, it is not long. The author, a recent graduate of Annapolis, although little known to the reading public, bids fair to acquire a place among our best short story tellers...
...regrettable that so many college writers try to be merely clever and so waste their power. An instance of this in the present number of the Advocate is "Three Dialogues and a Monologue." It does succeed in being clever. It concerns a young man and a young woman who understand each other well enough to be in a delightful relation of good fellowship, which makes their dialogue amusing and very readable...
Taken as a whole the current number of the Lampoon shows that the Christmas holidays have had a rather demoralizing effect. With the exception of an "Idle Class Day," a take off on the last story in "Harvard Episodes," which is decidedly clever, and a humorous imitation of the CRIMSON'S special notices, the articles and minor jokes are ordinary...
...Taken on Approval," although clever, is silly and does not justify its length-it is by far the longest contribution in the number. "When I'm Polite," is an anecdote not worth the telling and it is not very well told either. The number contains the usual collection of literary gymnastics under the head of "College Kodaks." One of these, called "My Lady of Boston," is in miserable taste and reminds one of the well known fable of the Fox and the Grapes...