Sentence:  Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques , full of dash and <WSD>wit</WSD> and glamor , quoting from the books I read , imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special , after school class I was enrolled . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter