Word: wits
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...speakers indulged in what would have been inappropriate at any time or in any place. There was also a tendency to levity, a tendency which should be checked, both because it seems to be growing in the Union, and because in a speech on a serious subject, wit and humor should not be the main elements. The audience, however, was good-natured, and readily over-looked all shortcomings. Colonel Higginson's presence and remarks showed the interest he takes in the Union. The experiment of allowing all who so wished, both ladies and gentlemen, to come to hear the debate...
With subtle stroke of wit to strip the dress...
Bits of worldly wisdom, flashes of wit, and shrewd estimates of human nature, go to make up the charming volume - too small, alas! - which bears the name of "Mother Goose's Melodies." And yet, with all her sense and all her wit, she had a fine ear for rhythm, and in "Four and Twenty Blackbirds" has given us the only pure Saturnian line in the language...
...smother you with wit...
...long-promised musical events of the season have been given this week. The musical eccentricity," "Robinsonade," has not been saved from insufferable stupidity, to our taste, by the clever adaptation of Mr. Childs, and the laudable efforts of the actors. It is truly Germanic in its dismal wit. "The Lark," music by Strauss, text ("Le Reveillon") by Meilhac and Halevy, is quite another thing. The music is very pretty, the adaptation of the libretto very well done, while both singing and acting are more than fairly good...