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unearths some literary gems.
From Spoofs, ed. Richard Butler Glaenzer:
***Merely coax the spoof to trade places with the ibis, and you'll appreciate the preponderant value of a classical education. [from the "Four Words," i.e., foreword, by John Vincent]***Readers are requested to refrain from expecting as pleasing a response if they venture to beard [i.e., corner] [George Bernard Shaw] on a similar occasion. He is already bearded to the nostrils. It would be checkmate for them. [Editor's Note]***Oliver Herford is a leonentity of the first magnitute. [Editor's Note]***The ruddy color of his face was enhanced by cockatoo-like gray hair. [William Rose Benét]***After all, you are probably worrying about something that will never happen. That was an isolated case in Nashville. It may have been in Tallahassee, which makes it all the more nebulous. [James Montgomery Flagg]***Muriel Pollock and Vee Lawnhurst had been sent to the laundry with their pianos. [H. W. Hanemann]***Years ago, Simeon Simon baked such inedible pies in his little bake shop in Hollywood that people came from miles around NOT to buy them. [Don Herold]***Dear President and Faculty, Classmates, Fellow Students, Parents, Kibitzers.... [J. P. McEvoy; I note that this is one of (at least) two pieces in the collection wherein "kibitzers" are included in a running list of vocations.]***[Bonus: a "Morley-Throckmorton-Milliken-Dribble" production]
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