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unearths some literary gems.
Wodehouse snippets:
***The Joyous Eyebrow [fictitious Broadway play]***Blue sea, gleaming Casino, cloudless sky, and all the rest of the hippodrome.***Lord Wildersham (pronounced Wing, to rime with Chiddingfold)***“Oh, don’t try and be funny, for goodness’ sake!” snapped Miss Verepoint. “It doesn’t suit you. You haven’t the right shape of head.”***“Moom?”“It’s spelt M-o-f-f-a-m, but pronounced Moom.”“To rhyme,” said Archie, helpfully, “with Bluffinghame.”***“I would do anything in my power to oblige the friend of a man whose cousin has met my brother at a garden-party, but there are no vacancies, I fear.”***In theatrical circles especially it holds a position which might turn the white lights of many a supper palace green with envy.***“I seen turnips with more spirit in ’em that what you’ve got. And Brussels sprouts. Yes, and parsnips.”***“Some day I knew I should meet the only girl I could possibly love, and then I would pour out upon her the stored-up devotion of a lifetime, lay an unblemished heart at her feet, fold her in my arms and say, ‘At last!’ ”“How jolly for her. Like having a circus all to one’s self.”***The collected jaws of the family fell as one jaw. Muriel herself seemed to be bearing the blow with fortitude, but the rest were stunned. Frank and Percy might have been posing for a picture of men who had lost their fountain pens.***[Cinquevalli again (and last time it wasn't Wodehouse)!]Although Dermot Windleband described himself as a Napoleon of Finance, a Cinquevalli of Finance would, perhaps, have been the more accurate description.***“No, no—I quite see that,” assented Roland. Dermot glanced up at him quickly, wondering whether, after all, he knew a little more than he had appeared to do. Luckily, Roland was trying, at the moment, to look intelligent, so Dermot was reassured.***“Why, if they know you want to buy you’ve as much chance of getting away from them without the paper as—as—well, I can’t think of anything that has such a poor chance of anything.”***[plus two illustrations/captions attached, from PGW stories in periodicals]
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