Word: epigrames
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Doubtful States. Somewhere a wise owl once hooted: "That which is full of doubt is full of attention." And so it is with nine states where good and bad orators leap from stump to stump, where a casual epigram or a few kissed babies may make or unmake a U. S. Senator...
...Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, in search of a proper weekly compliment to his hero, President Coolidge, fitted last week into the mozaic of his daily column an epigram: "This is the land of gold and the administration of golden silence...
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...brow in the perfume of waterlilies." The season previous his play, Salome, had been refused a license. In a few months he was to publish The Sphinx, a poetic catalog of "amours frequent and fine," dedicated to one Marcel Schwob. He had played and acted many variations upon his epigram, "Industry is the root of all ugliness." The next year, 1895, he was to be branded publicly and sent to prison for perverted practices...
Critics who reviewed the play next morning unanimously agreed that the third set was perhaps the most daring ever composed by the lean actor-dramatist. Four times Lacoste stood within a point of victory; four times, with strokes that bit like a fencer's riposte or an epigram by William Wycherly, Tilden beat him back. He took the set 8-6; ran out the match...