Word: wits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serve conversation, and the coffee-houses of the seventeenth aned eighteenth centuries have given way to gatherings where "the one about the traveling salesman" or the too-familiar cry. "Here you heard this one?" are the order of the day. No more is needed in order to be a "wit" than a superficial line of questionable repartee or the ability to first casually...
...endings of the two editorials are identical, to wit: rain or shine the Class of 1922 welcomes its families and friends to Cambridge, and extends in addition its cordial good wishes to the many visiting graduates. We have only one regret their short sojourn can hardly be as pleasant as has been our stay of four years...
From the outside it is difficult to determine the likely winner. Both papers are expert in their line, and we would be tempted to prophesy a drawn battle except for one thing, which we whisper to those readers who will incline their ears, to wit; we have it on very high authority that at least one of the publications is "slipping; slipping; slipping, right into the garbage pail." Who knows but both may slip in? In which case, perhaps some one will clamp...
...packed between covers without exploding. Mr. raves has had the difficult problem of tolling in his own words, with frequent quotations and allusions, what the world was doing and what "Punch" thought about it. He has done it admirably and has by Mr. Punch's brilliant strokes of humor, wit, and insight made his country's history more readable than the much-praised efforts of countless weary archivists. Not only does he supply all necessary background, and explain what and why, without equivocation, "Punch" did but he supplies all this in a manner unobtrusive and so in keeping with...
...fault of the author and not of the actor. He was particularly good in his first dialogue with Talleyrand and in the last act. He had in Miss Googins a partner of the first rank. She played the role of Lisette, in her three successive impersonations, with intelligence, vivacity, wit, and charming youthfulness. She modulates her voice with rare perfection, and her acting is graceful without affectation, light with none of those "mannerisms" that so easily become exaggerated. Lastly, the third important part was that of Talleyrand, which Conrad Salinger '23, played with an authority and a penetration that often...