Word: cleverness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ball was again faced, and after five minutes play F. Ross caught a pass from centre field, and squirming by our defence made a very clever side shot which scored a second goal for the visitors...
This year the class of '88 appointed a clever committee of arrangements, two members of which, Misses Lewi and Rich, wrote a play which they styled "The Mathematikado," and which, as might be inferred from its name, was a parody, and a very clever one, upon the noted production of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan...
...persons implicated in the play were the Mathematikado (a Braisilian by birth); Ayty Ayt, (a clever youth, in love with Trig Trig); Trig Trig, (a favorite of the Mathematikado); Latisha and Bot Ah Nee, ladies whom Ayty Ayt has paid court to, but of whom he has become tired; three little Ayty Nyns, admirers of Trig Trig; and a chorus of villagers of the town...
This burlesque was one of the most successful things of the kind given in Vassar for a long time. The parodies on the principal songs of the Mikado were all of them clever, that on Ko Ko's song, "I've got him on the list," especially...
...selection of facts, and last but not least in many students' books, the pictorial embellishments tell the story. The pictorial trait persists mainly in the limp-covered class and in the stiff-covered books which have fallen from grace. Some of the pictures will often be found to be clever and ingenious, but rarely bearing on the lecture topic. Some are poorly drawn but expressive, while others are mere aggravations...