unearths some literary gems.
From Act One, by Moss Hart:
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It is taken for granted that a cabinetmaker or a shoemaker, . . . starting with a certain degree of talent for his profession, does, after the practice of that profession for ten or twenty years, learn how to make a good cabinet or a decent pair of shoes. . . . Not so the playwright. He is quite capable after twenty years of practice of having a left shoe for the second act when a right shoe is obviously called for.
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[Expressive Back of Head dept. (I think this has come up before!)]
I signed the slip as he counted out the money, conscious that the people immediately behind me were whispering to each other. "It is not George Kaufman," I heard a woman's voice say. "It must be the other one."
As nearly as I could, I tried to achieve a look of modesty with the back of my head while I waited for him to finish.
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[From My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan]:
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"I'd felt certain this would unnerve her, but her response was well to the left of fiddle-dee-dee."
