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Samuel Goldwyn (originally Samuel Goldfish), cinema producer: "The Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (formerly headed by me) unsuccessfully sought an injunction restraining me from using my name in any private cinema enterprise. The name is legally my own, although I was born 'Goldfish' and later acquired the 'Goldwyn' by process of combining the first syllable of my name with the last syllable of the surname of Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, my business associates...
Dropped into Paul Moody's circle of super-sophisticates, Harold found himself as bewildered and shocked as an innocent goldfish in a bowl of curacoa. He failed to enjoy the delicate odors of their elegant decadence, and fled into marriage with Alice Blake, whose idea of Heaven was a brand-new Park Avenue apartment. But on his honeymoon he discovered the horrible truth. Father hadn't really wanted him to be charmingly wicked but to disgust him with the pleasant sins of life by throwing them at his head?a plot of which Alice had been cognizant from the first...
What poppycock! The undergraduates are so many goldfish in a transparent bowl, opening their mouths to suck in what is thrown at them in the guise of food. They swallow everything. This is a good figure; I shall copyright...
...Vice versa, let the same man fall, and he is held up to view as a horrible example of wasted opportunities. The Harvard or Yale man who does anything out of the ordinary has about as much social, financial, or literary privacy as Irvin Cobb's now proverbial goldfish. Small wonder he cannot forget what he is he is not allowed to. Mr. Morley and the rest have taken upon their shoulders an Old Man of the Sea of their own making. Nor will he drop off so long as they persist in clinging the more tightly...
...this discussion is interesting--especially for those being discussed. One has something of the feeling of Mr. Cobb's goldfish when all his moral traits and characteristics are dragged triumphantly to the light. Sometimes, too, there is a temptation to wonder if the critics, in their zeal, are not piling Pelion upon Ossa, and driving their proud victims to further limits in order to uphold the reputation laid at their thresholds. For above all we of the younger generation are anxious to please--and if we are expected to be shocking, shall we not do our best to give satisfaction...