unearths some literary gems.
From The Smart Set, ca. 1905:
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"All magic lies close to everyday affairs."
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the Every Other Saturday Club
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a solemn ass who wrote essays on the relation of something or other to something else
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Re. the attachments:
You will, of course, note the one-upping (-downing?) in the first snippet from Ethel Sigsbee Small(!). In case it's not obvious, by the way, the protagonists in the work by Small are--well--small, i.e., stage-struck children.
"The Importance of Being Somebody" actually has the prosaic meaning of "don't be a nobody." Naturally, I prefer to read it as a genericization of "E(a)rnest."
