unearths some literary gems.
[Thank you, Abecedarian, for leading me to this!]
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If everybody by the laws of chance happens to be silent simultaneously (such dreadful lacunae do occur even at the most carefully cocktailed and subsequently alcoholized dinners), then your party loses and the dinner-party next door wins.
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Don't be absurd? Huh! One has to die quickly in order not to be, and even then one may be funny.
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"That old woman gotten up like the sign for Spriggle's Nearmint Gum?"
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in a very tense moment, when the flapper heroine is taking her nightie and her baby-grand piano out onto the moors rather than be a bone of contention between her father and his stenographer, and there is a hush in the audience as solemn as a British family looking over the comic papers
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[Bonus: "ye gods and whitebait!" (which seems to be unique to JMF)]
[Bonus: "isadoraduncaning all over the room"]
