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unearths some literary gems.
From Jane Street of Gopher Prairie:
[This was an anoymously authored parody of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street.]***"I obtained you" [meaning "I got you," i.e., "I understood what you said"]***Jane had accepted a position as cashier in the Bon Ton Pickle Works.***[Bonus, from another work by the same anonymous author: a character named Mrs. Chase-Lyons (a society lady who rustles up distinguished speakers and the like)]
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