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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest) and "Unborn Words." The last named is- to use its own theory illustratively -deluciatingly quippant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

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