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Then there is that little matter of a Theatre Guild banquet?"the most prodigiously dull dinner of my experience." But despite his misfortune one would not have had him miss it. There were 13 speakers, which may have had something to do with it. It began with Heywood Broun, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enchanted Aisles* | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

In a recent discussion between a junior and sophomore as to whether New York or Boston was founded first, the junior calmly asserted that the latter city was settled in "thirteen hundred and something." Being reminded that the continent was not discovered until 1492, he wilted.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/8/1886 | See Source »

BEAUTIFUL, balmy spring is with us once again; the buds on the trees and the boys in the Yard shed respectively their brown scales and winter clothing, and blossom forth in the freshness of the vernal season. With spring comes the dainty crocus, the dandelion, the wilted collar, and the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIBBONS. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

And the fair flowers of God wilted low at thy breath.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO A PORTRAIT OF BIANCA CAPELLO BY TITIAN. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

Of a rose that is wilted and crushed;

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/9/1874 | See Source »

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