Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the tenor of these remarks it might erroneously be inferred that The Swan possesses tragic, ravenesque propensities. The Swan is a comedy. The wisdom of it is equaled, nay surpassed, by the pungence of its wit...
After the addresses this evening the competitions will get under way. Open to all members of the University are the acting, wit, and music composing and an orchestra organizing competitions. The business, publicity, stage, and electrical competitions are open to Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors...
...grand tour of Alphonse Marichaud in the foreign field of the written word is extraordinary. Letters to a friend -to a mistress-sharp, vivid, merry, little incidents-characterizations of people, of places as clean and telling as if they were cut on a copper plate-a startling potpourri of wit, vigor, irony, tragedy, acute observation - self-portrait of Marichaud himself that ranks among the few convincing descriptions of genius in recent fiction-all these jostle each other with all the inconsecutiveness of life itself in the pages of The Grand Tour. Beluga caviar for the appreciative, a discriminating and active...
...press: " Three young men from Oxford now debating with American university students seem likely to explode an ancient theory- namely, that the British lack wit . . subtle shafts of irony ... the house in merriment . . . seldom raised their voices . . . preferred reason to fervor...
...Bottomley formerly published John Bull, which is more anti-American than Mr. Hearst's newspapers are anti-British. He defrauded the public by huge lotteries. As he went to jail Justice Darling, the wit of criminal trials, is said to have remarked : " There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy...