Word: epigrammed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course meant,) to "fight to the last ditch" against warring nations which disturb our interests and our efforts for peace. Such willful brags, however well they may be meant, seldom serve the professed purpose for which they are made. Historically, they are a reflection of the "big stick" epigram of Theodore Roosevelt, the most popular, and probably the most unfortunate of his phrases. In the present circumstances, the smug assumption of moral superiority, even if valid, can only alienate further a people who already feel cause for resentment toward the American attitude. The United States would go closer toward...
There is Professor Fay walking in the garden with the Kaiser talking in gentle epigram under the moon. There is Professor Langer who starts all Revolutions on a hot night when there were festoons in the windows and sees all Europe marching while Bismarck in the corner beats the time on a massive drum. There are the shuffling feet and hunching shoulders of Professor Webster when Victoria hearkens to the voice of "her angel" as he climbs out on the golden bar of heaven. There is Professor Baxter addressing his class, even as though they were the Senate...
Private Lives (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "Certain women should be struck regularly-like gongs." In itself, this is not particularly witty. It is neither an epigram nor a wisecrack and anyone who made it at a dinner table would be lucky if it caused a smile. On the other hand, it is light-hearted and emphatic. Spoken by a cultivated young man to a lady with whom he is both in love and angry, it becomes funny. It illustrates the formula for Noel Coward's Private Lives, in which the author made his job easy by arranging his situations...
Maguire's attitude towards "the greatest of American games" is best summed up in a characteristic epigram: "One defeat a season is good for the coach's soul. Two defeats are bad for his contract." Money, of course, means nothing to the builder...
...annals of Ina Claire. Born at Washington, D. C. in 1892 and named Ina Fagan, she had become by 1915 a distinguished performer in the Ziegfeld Follies. Ten years later, she was the first comedienne of the Manhattan stage, able to give her baldest line the glitter of an epigram. Her first venture in Hollywood was an undistinguished effort for Pathe called The Awful Truth. Her next was a marriage with John Gilbert which resulted in such frantic publicity for the last celebrated lover of the silent cinema that it made Actress Claire look a little foolish. Her contract with...