Word: roundelaysâ
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SMOKE RINGS AND ROUNDELAYS???Selected by Wilfred Partington?Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Some hold that Old King Cole's wide reputation as a ban vivant rests largely upon the gusto with which, in enumerating his postprandial wants, he demanded, first of all, his pipe. The bowl, the fiddlers three were afterthoughts. Such persons belong to the Old Jimmy-Pipe Club, a somewhat fatuous association fostered chiefly by columnists, mass advertisers and female novelists desirous of articulating Big He-Men; for, since Cole's day, tobacco has sunk to a low place in literature. The cigar usually proceeds from the stained teeth...
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