Word: epigram
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...three acts of light but languid conversation. Too bad it is the play lags, for the performance is immensely satisfactory. Resplendent in hoops and ruffles, Billie Burke returns to the theatre for the title part. Her acting is eventful, feathery and fine. Reginald Owen and Arthur Byron revel in epigram and rages as the suitors; while one Madge Evans is the daughter. Conveniently for the play she closely resembles the lovely Billie Burke; conveniently, too, for Miss Madge Evans...
...native earth and some fine story writers and poets uncovered. Condensation was the main need. Editor Archibald used to say to us scribes: "If you have an idea for a story see if you can boil it down to ten-line par [paragraph] and then to a one-line epigram." As he paid only on space it was Spartan ruling. The best sonnets ever written by Aussies-Bayldons on Marlowe and O'Downds "Last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space"-received the same pay as a dog fight...
...Epigram,: "To plough is to pray, to plant is to prophesy, and the harvest answers and fulfills...
...have to know your business around here, and its a mighty complicated one. First you break your back talking Jupiter or that Venus for a ride, and the next minute you have to give some Chinese jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...
...casual epigram, a few kissed babies...