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...remarked, that the members of the House of Representatives "would rather not be right than be ex-Congressmen." It seems that all but two of the faint-hearted men of the lower chamber are infinitely anxious not to oppose the colorless but powerful man who has made himself Poobah of American patriotism...
Verminous Virtuosity. Though the females of his species-the famed belles of St. Trinian's-are perhaps more deadly, molesworth is more refined. It's the difference between the cobra and the roach. Rather than crush a master's skull, this little poobah prefers to nibble at his sanity, and at least in the case of "Sigismund arbuthnot, the mad maths master," nigel has brilliantly succeeded. In general, he has perfected the art of creeping antisocialism, which has been practiced by boys of every land and time but seldom with such verminous virtuosity...
...have an intellect which is supremely like the intellect of the myriads, Ring Lardner is the Shakespeare of the U. S. In person, great-nosed, lean-a melancholy marabou of a man-he understands as no one else alive the U. S. buddy ballplayer, salesman, cop, yegg, bootlegger and poobah. His wit crackles like static, loud enough to disguise, but never to obscure, the grave or bitter tune that runs behind it. In his new book, he writes a series of satiric squibs about religion, Europe, chorus girls, Finnish dramatists, athletes. They are not in his best manner...