Word: merite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illustrations are for the most part amusing and well done. Such pieces as "Three Men in a Boat", redacted after the manner of Ernest Hemingway, provoke more than a single smile. There is a goodly scattering of squibs worth repeating, and there are verses which have distinct merit. One finds, in short, plenty of evidence that the editors have a talent for making humor prevail, a sense of values, and the wish to carry on an enviable tradition. They would profit most, perhaps, by more widespread and varied co-operation--there are evidences that the burden of this issue...
...must be found in the difficulty of training the singers for more frequent meetings of the type. However, similarity of programs is not particularly an evil, when the membership of the audience changes to some extent each time, and when the programs are of such real merit as those Doctor Davison offers. The period of the year from the April vacation to the end of May is not one of all-absorbing scholastic or athletic activity; so the Glee Club does not at that time have such dangerous competition for its members' attention as earlier in the year. In consideration...
...omit from any given sentence any possible detail has indeed made Author Newman's style more or less famous (The Hard-boiled Virgin). Hardly a sentence but begins with a while or a when or a since, and balances itself to lengthy conclusion. Literary critic of some merit (The Short Story's Mutations), she undoubtedly knows better, so the diagnosis is reduced to that of affectation...
Designated last week were this year's winners of Pulitzer Prizes for literary merit...
People in this country with their extensive fictional knowledge of the yellow people, have complacently left Chinese warfare to the chorus in comic opera. Attended as it is by mass starvation, wholesale looting, and peculiarly Oriental cruelty, the interminable struggle does not, of course, merit such classification, but as a theatrical spectacle, it does provide an interesting analogy to Europe's own rise from feudalism some five centuries ago. For the leaders of both sides are independent lords at the head of vassals whose patriotism is largely a monetary consideration...