unearths some literary gems.
From The Smart Set, January 1910:
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[Grave wiseacres! This phrase is employed by an author named Alice Hathaway Cunningham.]
"grave wiseacres who maintained an air of mystery and said there were always two sides to every story"
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Antony and Cleopatra with the art sauce [from "Drama's Trial Marriage with Art," by George Jean Nathan]
Cleopatra was not the only one who had been stung. [ditto]
The Belle of Brittany is one of the best musical plays that ever came out of the test tubes in the English collaboratory. [ditto]
[Four more Nathan snippets attached.]
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It has all of the shortcomings and few of the merits of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. [Mencken]
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[Two miscellaneous snippets also attached.]
