Word: epigrames
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...Newport. "In few cases was the ball returned!" With this journalistic naivete a pressman described the match between William M. Johnton and Brian I. C. Norton at the Newport Casino. No epigram could have summed it up as neatly. Johnston, since he already won the tournament on two previous years gained permanent possession of the Casino silver bowl, valued...
TIME agrees with Mr. Armstrong that a characterization of the "trade" of the Marines as "mud and alcohol" is unfair. TIME'S dramatic critic, straining inadvisedly for epigram, became thoughtless, careless, callous. No offence was intended. But, since an offence was committed, an apology is herewith tendered...
...towering cubes, pulled his mustache at its effervescent hostesses, been courteous to ladies who adored Art and worshipped macaroons, graciously eaten his dinner in houses where the butlers were gentlemen, in houses where the guests were lackeys, in houses where the company was so perfect as to appal epigram. In Manhattan are other artists, less dined. These read, in the Metropolitan press, of Zuloaga's feedings, of his exhibition. They read that 40,000 people had visited the exhibition, that $100,000 worth of pictures had been sold on the opening day,* that the Governor-elect of Massachusetts...
...bored in the subway seems idiocy to me. So a college which teaches you to be successful in the crisis but a failure at amusing yourself in the subway is wrong." This is both delightful and intelligent, but most of the embroidery of "Logic" is either pure dada, or epigram that does not bear directly on a central theme of criticism. Yet the sketch is in the general spirit of prose, and in a particular spirit that is suited to the American genius and the genius of the day. It does not take refuge in faint reproduction of past prose...
...sportive pomposity amuses Mr. Boyd enormously. Most of the time it amuses the reader. His greatest delight and accomplishment is punning in phrases, giving a clever twist to another's epigram, or setting, in the midst of an immaculate sentence, some rich gem of slang. Occasionally his erudition waxes into windy verbosity, but not for long. Soon there will come a forthright shaft of sarcasm, or a quotation, such as Yeats' remark about George Moore: "What a pity Moore never had a love affair with a lady-always with women of his own class...