Word: mots
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Courant, describing the Peabody Museum, gives utterance to the following bon mot. "In a large room on the first floor, lectures on scientific subjects are frequently given, one on the evolution of a Princeton man from a lump of New Jersey mud being especially popular...
...comedy was equally suitable for revival. And, notwithstanding the brilliant success of the performances, this doubt has been in great part justified, for most of the fun and fooling in the play resembled a modern pantomime too closely to be very interesting or impressive, while when the satire was mot of a modern kind, its point was entirely missed, except by the learned few. There was no idea dominating the whole play and leaving its impress upon the spectators; on the contrary, its interest consisted of variety of incident, and its success was owing to the admirable manner in which...
...petit mot mignon de la langue Allemande (on est prie de la prononcer sans respirer): Vierwaldstatterseesa-lonschraubendampferactienskonkurrenz-gesellschaftsbureau. - [La France Entiere...
...recent bon mot of Professor Lowell is: "Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded...