Word: crisp
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other hand, much in the book is cleverly done, although the author is at times unreal. The descriptions are especially good, leaving a crisp and vivid impression in the mind of the reader...
...scenes of pathos, and he shines as brightly in this field as in the realms of comedy. The play has a story with a motive, which can not be said of many so-called comedies. It abounds in dramatic interest. The dialogue is bright and crisp, full of sparkling lines, and the situations and stage business are novel and effective. The entire company is fitted with good parts and all do thorough justice to them. "A Gilded Fool" will be given at every performance of the week beginning February 18, including the special matinee of Friday, Washington's Birthday, February...
...recalled again and again. The atmosphere was English, the people were English and everything was appreciated to the highest degree. That familiar and distressing form of English humor which is indicated by a series of the coarsest puns was entirely lacking, and in its place was a crisp dialogue, full of good things, and as sparkling as champagne. Original music was admirably sung by excellent voices, while the comedians were actually and genuinely funny. The wealth of pretty girls, the gay dancing, the gorgeous costumes all go to make up a bubbling entertainment that serves to amuse everyone...
...journal devoted to "Literature, University Thoughts and Events," makes the following literary criticism of the daily papers of Harvard and Cornell: "These are purely newspapers; they make no pretense of giving anything of a literary character, but content themselves with reporting the college news. The editorials are fresh and crisp, and the whole papers give a splendid evidence of the enterprise and get-up-and-get of the students of these big schools...