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...Morley: ... A sweet and dangerous opiate is Memory ... the bliss of anxious thought...
Last week burly, whimsical, pipe-sucking Christopher Morley popped O. O. McIntyre onto the front pages with the cry of "plagiarism." The cry was raised over the latest McIntyre book, The Big Town, a collection of "New York Day By Day" columns. In his own "Bowling Green" column in the Saturday Review of Literature Mr. Morley ironically recalled that McIntyre had long been a Morley enthusiast. (Sample McIntyre column note: "The most perfect verbal silversmith, to my notion, is Christopher Morley.") Morley went on to say that McIntyre had been so carried away by his enthusiasm that for 15 years...
Verbal Silversmith Morley thereupon tabulated 30 examples of similarities between McIntyre phrases and excerpts from his own works written several years earlier. Samples...
...Morley: . . . Floats an instant in the mind like a smoke-ring, then spreads and thins and sifts apart...
With his vivacious, black-eyed wife, Elizabeth Morley Bates Cowles. sister of Actress Sally Bates, John lives in a big. old red brick house, owned successively by two late Secretaries of Agriculture (Wilson's Meredith, Harding's Wallace). "But," says John Cowles, "I don't want anyone to think my ambition is ever to be secretary of Agriculture." The Cowleses entertain often and well. Their bedded guests within a fortnight included such an assortment as Herbert Hoover. Thomas S. Lamont, Nicholas Roosevelt. Philip Ludwell Jackson, ebullient publisher of the (Portland) Oregon Journal who rarely gets...