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unearths some literary gems.
From Smart Set, July-December 1909:
***[Gelett Burgess says, in comparing a character to a portrait of the same character]When the real smile came the picture receded to its frame, sighed and fell asleep.***The air [around the Flatiron Building] was an arrant madcap that day; it blew in six directions at once, like an intoxicated tornado. [Burgess]***She laughed for a full minute by the clock, then reeled to a chair and laughed again. [Burgess]***Mrs. Braxton-Burlap [Burgess]***elaborate epigrams, as carefully worded as a mortgage [H. L. Mencken]***If this dramatists continue playing on New York life much longer, New York life will need a piano tuner to get it back into shape again. [George Jean Nathan]***It is, in brief, not half so bad as the publisher's encomiums lead you to expect. [Mencken]***[The play's] atmosphere is so penetratingly realistic that it makes one feel like putting on a verisimilitude overcoat. [Nathan]***
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