Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pomeroy's Past. Clare Kummer can balance the feather of wit on the foolish nose of her comedies just about as well as anybody in America. This latest of her all too infrequent writings is powdered with agreeable derision and encumbered with an incredibly heavy last act. If you examine it meticulously you will probably find that the other acts are not too effective. For the sake of the numerous excruciating lines you will waive this examination. Pomeroy's Past is an entertainment of major delight in the conversation. Otherwise it does not matter much...
...said that no other divine in the U. S. is personally beloved by so many people of intelligence. He speaks with sparkling wit, persuasive earnestness. Once Dean Brown of Yale, hunting for a superlative, termed him "the greatest living Christian...
Those in whom there lurks a fondness for true classic restraint can enjoy the list of names given by the business minds of the University to the new buildings across the Charles. Brevity, which is sometimes thought of as the soul of wit, has attached itself forever to big business. From chorines' skirts to names of buildings the world of affairs and butter and eggs does like brevity. So the halls of higher accounting which the Baker fund has erected in the shadow of the stadium have been succinctly named...
...Sullivan will tell you that it is certainly the biggest and one of the best presentations of the opera given in these parts for many seasons. It matters little that the satire was created to shame certain unsalty potentates in the British admiralty nearly half a century ago. The wit is still spry. Of the lyrics and the music, the yellowing files for 50 years are full of eulogy. There remains only the manner of the recreation. There is a noble, towering set; over a hundred chorus people in several hundred handsome gowns and uniforms; and a cast of notables...
...debate on the subject, "Resolved: That education is the curse of the present age", was in the informal English manner, and was characterized by the wit and cleverness of the speeches on both sides. The team which clinched the Big Three debating title for Harvard was composed of D. W. Chapman '27, Barrett Williams '28, and F. W. Lorenzen...