Word: quois
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...American literature has definitely approved the direction contemporary writers are taking. The evident appreciation of background by the younger men who have persisted in recording their contempt for American verse, civilization in the western world, is tending toward a social literature out of which that he no said quoi of greatness can only come. Dreisers and dos Passos, Lewises and their compeers are throwing the shafts of their wit into the obscurity of apparent dullness, are really, in short, lighting the stage of American letters...
...people of Paris have a curious sense of humor and no matter how tragic a circumstance may be they can always find in it de quoi rire...
...Carson '24, is the other one. Without Pratt's je-ne-sais-quoi, Carson has about as much winsomeness and charm as any female part on any Pudding stage. If those two girls get through a whole season without backstage quarrels and mebbe a shooting or two, it will be because they8 are as beautiful in character as they are in character--which is undoubtedly the case...
...Music in this University; a compilation by Professor Spalding of the names of Harvard graduates engaged in various musical activities; a short poem to Edwin Grasse, the blind violinist who gave a concert here not long ago; two songs by Mr. S. F. Damon '14. "To Blossoms" and "A Quoi Bon Entendre," the first preferable in mood and workmanship; and finally book-review, editorial, and foreign correspondence...
...Avenel delivered the last Hyde lecture yesterday afternoon on "De quoi se composaient les fortunes des riches et des bourgeois d'autrefois." M. d'Avenel will leave Boston today for New Haven, where he will lecture at Yale. From there he will tour through the large cities of the East and finally through the West to San Francisco, returning East through Canada, and leaving for France about...