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Besides this, the publishers "acknowledge with profound gratitude the aid of Messrs. Aesop, Wm. Howe, Rob't Herrick, Poor Robin, Chas. Warner, Ben Jonson, Plato, and Shakespeare "to mention but a few of the post mortuous contributions to this very delightful, very helpful book.
Probably the most famous passage, and one which takes up a very large portion of the whole story, is the description of the dinner party given by Trimalchio, the incredibly wealthy and entirely credibly regular parvenu, an entertainment which is a veritable miracle of extravagant bad taste, which even Mr...
And I hope you will pardon this wail. I am indifferent whether you publish it now that I feel better for having said a word, probably crudely, in behalf of Curtis, one of your early subscribers who always boosts TIME and who introduced me to its delightful pages, who has...
The play itself, however, was hardly a match for the importance of the occasion, when one considers what might reasonably be expected from the author of "Where the Blue Begins," "Thunder on the Left," or even "The Romany Stain." "Pleased to Meet You" is the name of the play, an...
Other art journals inquired. In response other masterpieces dripped from the brush of Jerdanowitsch. One showed a jet-black Negress at a washtub, with socks hanging on a clothes line overhead. Displayed at the No-Jury Exhibition (Marshall Field's, 1926) under the title "Aspiration," it was selected out of...