Word: trenchant
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...will present "The Profligate," by A. W. Pinero. Miss Burroughs is one of the favorites among all the artistes who visit this city. "The Profligate," which she has selected for her opening, is said to be one of the most powerful dramas, and is a marvel of superb diction, trenchant English and dramatic surprises without number. "The Profligate" has been recently produced, and wherever seen has met with the greatest approbation. The company surrounding her will be one of undoubted excellence, as there are many strong parts in this new play, requiring accuracy and merit. Miss Burroughs's engagement...
...Tolstoy at Home," she should make this the title and subject of a paper in the November Atlantic, which is one of the features of the number. Miss Hapgood, although admiring his great gifts, is not a blind adherent of his changeable philosophies. Her sketch is therefore clever and trenchant and it must be read if one would understand Tolstoy better than perhaps he understands himself. It is a useful bit of information for the layman that the name Tolstoy with the y is the writer's own way of spelling his own name, and not a typographical error...
...contemporaneous journalism, that the Nation so often and justly indulges in. "The Doctrine of States' Rights" is advocated by Jeff. Davis. Erastus Wiman writes on "British Capital in the United States." Rev. Julius H. Ward discusses the "American Bishops of Today" and Ouida writes on Shelley in a trenchant style, which she adopts as an essayist and is so different from her romance manner. The remainder of the number is filled with the usual notes and comments in small type, the best of which is "Is Suicide...
...which others are in a large measure to be censured. It is unjust because it overlooks the difficulties which surround a man so situated; because it affirms as the opinion of the university that which is not the opinion of even a minority of its members. The communication is trenchant, but all trenchant remarks are two-edged, and when a personal opinion is made to masquerade as a statement of "things as they are" such statement incurs the dangerous distinction instinctively given to all "personalities." There certainly should now be allowed no possibility for such criticisms to gain credence...
...then taken up and cheered on by the triumphant strains of "Yale Men Say," and "Marching Through Georgia," the freshman made the walls of the old dormitories echo and re-echo with the sound of their prolonged "rah's." Transparencies bearing the names of the freshman nine and trenchant sarcasm upon Yale, the CRIMSON and others who expected to hear of defeat at the hands of the 'Blue' freshmen were displayed. After the yard had been traversed and re-traversed, the transparencies and the nine took up their position upon the steps of University, where cheers for Harvard, the individual...