unearths some literary gems.
From One, Two, Three, by Paul Selver:
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Tancred glanced down the menu, which was as long as a sonnet, and more poetical than many of them.
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So that was settled, whatever it was.
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Some pranced like palfreys, others bounded like kangaroos....Some evidently strove to cover the maximum of space in the minimum of time, while others were pursuing the precisely opposite aim. There were some whose movements suggested that they were plotting graphs on the floor with their feet, and others who by the oscillatory maneoeuvres of their arms demonstrated that they were exponents of the pump-handle system of dancing. And then a select minority performed some esoteric rites by waggling their legs esoterically.
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Complications and quandaries might very well arise. Anthony shrank from complications and quandaries.
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"Perhaps they're like Martial, who said that his libellum was thingumabob, but his vita was what's-its-name."
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Anthony resumed his duties with increased zeal, or rather, decreased reluctance.
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Somebody...described the dramatic articles of Mr. Lincoln Vesh as "cwitticisms."
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Mr. Stilton could bore six persons with as much ease as he could bore one. [This character called Montague Stilton predates Wodehouse's "Stilton" Cheesewright, btw. [See also the "St. Ilton" business in one of the attachments.]
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Dr. Scutt-Grindle's tone was one of studied politeness, but the study had been incomplete.
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Bonus names:
"Uncle Chubbychops" (a hypothetical elixir advertiser)
Miss Niblick
the Tinberry-Vennears
Mr. Gordon Gordon
