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unearths some literary gems.
From Vanity Fair, January-June 1919:
***Ned was a young man of great possibilities, but few probabilities. [Benchley]***The puffin...is easily distinguishable from the more effete robin of America because the two birds are similar in no essential points. [Benchley]***[Notes on some of the attachments]1. Re. "Ask your grocer about 'Emancipators'..." I believe there's a similar gag in a Steve Allen radio transcript, from a few decades later. I suppose Steve may have subconsciously plagiarized Benchley (this piece was anthologized), or it may just have been a case of Great (Meeting of) Minds.2. "Common Faults in Bidding at Auction": This is just an instance where an unrelated photo placed in proximity to a headline created a funny symbiosis in my mind.3. "Negation": This is apparently a real "futurist" play, not a spoof.4. Onyx: This is just sort of bizarrely wonderful, imo. I've dug up a better-printed example as well (from a decade earlier--the ad evidently had a long shelf life!).
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