Word: wits
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...years. Perhaps these unfortunates may be redeemed from the pulpit of Sever 11. But it is more likely that Professor Murdock will concern himself with the later years of Mark Twain's life, for post mortem critics have discovered the many bitter pills under his palatable coating of gentle wit. For Clemens was the first American to discover that Uncle Sam would swallow an unpleasant truth if sufficiently sugared. Will Rogers has followed somewhat haltingly in his train. Why not go back to the original...
...character of the thoughtful fire-builder would seem to suggest a drama flickering with irony, but Playwright Mann Page has apparently overlooked this possibility, has devoted himself to the vapid story of the Elliotts. Inasmuch as they are wholly theatrical characters, limned without reality or wit, little can be said for the entertainment...
...years entertained members and guests of the club with his annual readings, similar to those held at the Union each Christmas. The dinner, announced by W. G. Wendell '09, club secretary, will be attended by prominent writers of the day, and should prove 'a feast of wit and reason...
Maurois tells the story of this dazzling career with all the wit and penetration, the insight and sympathy, that make him a master of modern biography. The succession of romantic scenes, the group of famous friends--Shelley, Hobhouse, Tom Moore--Maurois paints them all in brilliant colors and witty phrases...
...glimmer above Mt. Auburn Street, where thirteen hundred men, thirty thousand tons of concrete, and fourteen hundred tons of structural steel are casting Harvard into another mould. Under the shadow of the new the past looks upward or averts its eyes. An idea, a gift, a burst of undergraduate wit, an impassive digging of foundations and overnight a Unit has changed the skyline, like the house that Jack would have built if he too had had ten million dollars...