Word: wits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...marred the simplicity and good taste of his pages. But the fundamental texture of his thought and feeling was American, and his most characteristic style has the raciness of our soil. Nature lovers like to point out the freshness and delicacy of his reaction to the New England scene. Wit and humor and wisdom made him one of the best talkers of his generation. These qualities pervade his essays and his letters, and the latter in particular reveal those ardons and fidelities of friendship which men like Emerson and Thoreau longed after without ever quite experiencing. Lowell's cosmopolitan reputation...
...Versailles Number of the Lampoon the unspoken words of a million readers are voiced in a criticism of the overdone war jokes. To prove the justice of his complaint Lampy, to the gratification of his many faithful readers, proceeds to give an idea of what he means by modern wit. Classicism may be very well in literature, but in the realm of humor, the modern commuter prefers something smacking less of Adam and the fig leaf. His efforts easily outrank former issues and vie with that masterpiece of 1918, the Graduates Number. We are told that poetry is that...
...lioness by the Charles has not lost her wit, and the young lions will not fail." The very homeliness of this characterization made by President Lowell is striking. Here for decades Harvard has nourished her sons, trained them in the lore of the past and directed them into the paths of the future. When the call came for men to defend this home, the young lions did not fail. 7,523 set behind them their personal desires. They left comforts and opportunities to face the most gigantic war which modern science could produce. They did not wait until convenience allowed...
...mind on earth capable of predicting how much time may be available for completing the training of units after they arrive in France. We see that the one right thing to do on this side of the Atlantic is what General Pershing is doing behind the fighting lines--to wit, making the best possible use of every possible moment. One thing is certain, no officer can ever be too well trained. That he should not be too little trained, the school now opened at Devens gives promising new assurance. --Boston Transcript...
...Wit has taken a welcome brace in these spring months of ours. The Lampoon of nowadays is thrice as sprightly as it was earlier in the college year when a decimated board or editors tackled an unwonted task. Its quips carry a superior kick and its rhymes show an improvement in content and metre. All of which naturally makes the spring number a whole lot more enjoyable than the autumn edition...