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...Frederick Pollock: "[It] made me laugh consumedly. . . . The writer['s] ... indecency . . . must have escaped the editors." Critic Wilson's subject: book reviewers ("What a wonderful is liquorary quiddicism! What fastiddily! . . . What unreproachable stammards and crytea-ria!"). Parodist Wilson's chief victims are "Liberary clinics Carl von Doorman, Herbert S. Goren, Gorman B. Munson...
...Munch-Club . . . the giver-away of a mahogany Britannica with every subscription." He gave Munch-Club readers: "Elizabeth and Sex by Lytton Scratchy, John Brown's Benny by Steve Brody, The Bridge of San Louis Bromfield by Ray Long, A Farewell to Farms by Mark van Doorman, How to be Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander by quaint old Trader van Horen...
...Thomas C. Hart commanded the grandiloquently named, puppy-sized U.S. Asiatic Fleet (two cruisers, 13 destroyers, 27 submarines, some auxiliaries). Later he took over what there was of a Pacific Allied Fleet until he was relieved last February in favor of the late Dutch Admiral K. W. F. M. Doorman. In two Satevepost articles innocently entitled What Our Navy Learned in the Pacific and Amphibious War Against Japan, Admiral Hart loosed his pent-up feelings about the Army in terms so thinly veiled that no soldier or sailor could miss his point...
Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons announced a new scholarship fund of $7,000 last week: in honor of its Doorman Charles Costello and the late George Peters, coatroom attendant. George and Charlie both went to work at P. & S. in 1898. They knew every student who ever marched through the doors, kept track of their whereabouts after they graduated. At an alumni dinner three years ago, Charlie greeted by name every member of the class of 1915. Once, said Dr. Louis Casamajor, chairman of the scholarship committee, he heard George mumbling discontentedly at his work. When asked...
...trouble unlocking the turtleback; moving-day fingers are always thumbs. Once it was up, she and the apartment doorman, pulling out three typewriters and an armload of packages, got in each other's way. Inside the apartment she found that the movers had not yet arrived with the first load; they never have. When they did get there, naturally, they decided to knock off for lunch before unloading. Mrs. Roosevelt went back uptown for her own lunch. She had forgotten to take the car out of gear; it leaped away with her like a stubborn broncho...