unearths some literary gems.
From The New Yorker, Feb.-June 1925:
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Lone prospectors in the mountains of review copies need divining rods, guaranteed to wriggle over merit.
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Artemus J. Teeter, Harvard '09 A.B., Columbia 11 A.M., Daylight Saving Time
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[From a "before" testimonial in a subscription ad.]
"I was empyrean, didactic, and eleemosynary."
[And the subscription card includes self-diagnoses for such items as...]
Ectoplasms
Xylophone Addiction
Zanyism
& So Forth
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a jollifier [master of ceremonies]
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[Chaplin is] a three-ring Intelligentsia all by himself. [Ben Hecht]
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