unearths some literary gems.
From the Bookman, 1915-1919:
***The literature of the grim mechanics of short-story writing is gradually getting to be as voluminous as the short-stories themselves.***Bonuses:presumably fictitious author name: Stephen BackspaceThe Sardonic Sardine: a (presumably fictitious) humor piece--though the phrase has popped up elsewhere in our time; not bad, considering there's no such thing as a sardine!Notes on some of the attachments:"alibi-ing on titles": a silent-era ancestor of "we'll fix it in post"!"Hill" is columnist Murray Hill"Morley" is Christopherre. the "quip of character": This reminds me of a quip I once heard re. 1960s comedians, to the effect that Jack Carter seemed to be standing up even when sitting down, and Bob Newhart (or someone of that ilk) seemed to be sitting down even when standing up.WRB = illustrator William Rose Benét
