Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lillian includes bits of description worthy Homer at his blindest--to wit. "The pipe was a decrepit article, smudged duskily and he cherished it like the family jewels," and this almost transcendental athletic episode. "The second quarter saw the ball see-saw in the center of the field with both sides striving savagely but vainly to advance it. . . . At a nod from the coach, Bobbie, his face beaming, pranced on to the gridiron." Then this domestic touch to add antithesis or something which deserves a paragraph...
...drop it. He studied music at Harvard and entered his father's office. He met Elgar, pride of England, he studied under Bernhard Zielin, he composed the jazz panto-ballet Krazy Kat for the Chicago Orchestra and continued functioning as his company's vice president. Legerity, wit and polish are the chief characteristics of his music...
...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...
...liquor controversy is a whirlwind which perennially evolves queerly quirked episodes. Were it not for the prohibition joke, many a humorous magazine must before now have run out of material. And outside the field of the professional wit there is ever a perpetual merry-go-round upon whose hobby horses ride the garrulous politicians...
...wife, Johanna von Puttkamer, was of a milder temper. Yet their daughter got on well with her mother, too. In the Princess Bismarck's absence she presided over the famed Yellow Salon so graciously that a newspaper of the day declared: "She has become a remarkably fine woman, whose wit and intelligence are the theme of general praise...