Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage is, to quote the critic. "A paradise of leg shows"; her literature "as dead at the Hittite empire," her press, "the garbage can of American journalism." Indeed, to read Mr. Angoff's essay is to listen for long pages to a booming, often banal barrage of rather heavy wit. He buries Boston and he does so with a bang...
ARMS AND THE MAN?The fiery wit of Bernard Shaw roasting war on the spit of his early comedy. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne...
...Wit and beauty are most successfully captured in: Big Boy, Artists and Models, The Student Prince, Rose-Marie, Princess Flavia, Louie the 14th, Sunny and No, No Nanette...
...Erskine is a professor of English at Columbia University. He is 46, and most of his life has been devoted to writing and editing things resembling textbooks, and to employing more or less of his cleverness in speaking to more or less appreciative audiences. He has now turned his wit loose and decided to write something that appeals to himself...
Whatever son of Harvard reads the condemnation of these noisy times by that wit and critic, essayist and Philadelphian, Agnes Repplier, will remember the hammers that are building the new Fogg Museum and which are heard between words of some lecture in Emerson or Sever, and readily agree. "Noise", says Miss Repplier, "is savage. It is time that scientists were concerned with some means of collecting sound, carrying it away somewhere and dumping it. We need, not an invention to reproduce or carry sound, but one to eliminate it." And there is wisdom in her words. The noise of motor...