unearths some literary gems.
From The Smart Set, 1908:
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Victor Moore...is an actor whose possibilities stick out at the elbows of his role. [Channing Pollock]
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"It's absolutely wonderful. Really, I've exhausted my adjectives over it."
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You will find yourself getting a hundred laughs for a dollar. [Pollock]
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[More attached. "The Prodigal Parent" is included only because, at first glance, I thought it said "The Prodigal Parrot"--which ties in, of course, to that newsworthy parrot that returned after a long absence speaking a different language.]