Word: wittingly
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...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...
...modesty, grace, and wit that blend...
...well-known wit). The receipt for Cheddar Cheese...
...Poet took arsenic because his choicest stanza had been left out; the Bummer looked in vain for his complaint about the janitors, and declared that the Editor was fawning on the Faculty; the Professor was disgusted with the complaints, and publicly reviled the paper at all his recitations; the Wit found that all the point of his article had been left out, and that his brevity jokes had been spoiled by the printer. However, there was point enough left in them to get the Editor cowhided by a janitor and suspended for speaking disrespectfully of the President. Truly, a weary...