Word: epigrammed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...have never met Mr. Arlen; but he is arriving presently (in November, I think) in America. I shall meet him with pleasure and expect to be destroyed immediately by an epigram...
...agreed to disagree, and thereupon published the account of that dispute. The only concrete result of its inquiry as to what the public wants is the conclusion that the public is an unexplicable monster with unaccountable tastes and that has long been known. However, some choice bits of epigram have been devised which should drive the public's champions to inkpots and scribbled defenses...
...Politics is adjourned," a Wilsonian epigram, came true on the day of his death. His memory was saluted in every language, in every degree of respect, admiration, devotion...
Yale harbored a boisterous crew of farmers' sons. In its bleak, ill lighted, and unheated halls was small opportunity for the niceties. It knew little of the works and life of Franklin, but worshipped the epigram and death of Nathan Hale. Place on the football team, in college office, and secret societies went to the low of brow, heavy of hand, and swift of limb...