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unearths some literary gems.
From The Bookman, November 1927:
[writes Valentine Williams]I don't know whether novelists have a private patron saint--so many of us do our own patronising, don't we?[writes former Bookman editor John Farrar; I guess "Chipman" is a pseudonym for Bookman's "chip off the old block"]Chipman's favorite poem at six months' age is Shelley's "The Cloud." He jumps and dances and gurgles with delight when that is recited to him. I suppose it is only fair to add that he jumps and dances and gurgles with delight when it isn't, also.[Bonus: "Meanwhiling" as a present participle, e.g., "They are merely meanwhiling as reporters." I think I've seen this usage twice in The Bookman, and online research (including M-W and OED) suggests that it has had no other existence than the Bookman's whimsy.]
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