Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Joseph Murphy will present his popular play, "Kerry Gow," at the Windsor Theatre. Murphy is a clever actor; and presents an amusing performance...
...called the "Hub of the universe." You see from this that we are not Bostonians, nor yet are we New Yorkers, for had we been you would have heard the words "provincial" and "cosmopolitan" contrasted with some considerable contempt. Not that we know what they mean - nobody does. Some clever man once used them, and now everybody uses them, and everybody's nobody, so nobody knows; Q. E. D. Perhaps this is rather a threadbare way for us to try to prove any thing; but beggars, you know, can't be choosers. But to pursue our subject (one must always...
...Parker's, and had taken him so often to the theatre. So he took me to call on Carolinda Wiggleson. I was just recovering from my passion for Adelinda Higginsworth, and was consequently in a very sensitive and susceptible condition. On entering the room I succeeded by a clever move in giving Lardy a place next to Carolinda's grandmother, and so I had his duck all to myself. I perceived a bookcase at the end of the room, and said I was so much interested in literature. Consequently we walked across, and she showed me Hawthorne's "Marble Faun...
...CLEVER.It's not such a very hard thing, you know, to be clever. Not that I mean to say that every one can be. I only mean that you needn't be a genius, or even unusually bright. You must have the average amount of ability, plenty of confidence, and, above all, you must keep trying. If you keep trying all the time you are sure to hit on something that will pass for a witticism, and when you have once got off a good thing you can afford to be silly or stupid for a month - or until...
...every tongue each clever lass...