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A maid told a four year old boy that there was a fierce old woman lurking beneath their old-fashioned hot air register, who would eat him if he did not …
View ArticleHow To Get To The Theatre On A Rainy Night
The writer and his lady companion tried vainly to get a taxi to take them to the theatre on a rainy night. She tapped on the door of a large, …
View ArticleSeats On Sale At the Box Office
Imaginary conversation between a man in the box office of a Broadway theatre and the people who were standing in line to get tickets. Everybody aired his …
View ArticleSee Your Travel Agent For Details
Dialogue between a travel agent and a lady patron, using the cliches of travel folders & travel advertisements. The agent describes various places where …
View ArticleCaveat Emptor
Writer recalls how he was talked into buying a suit of tails in 1931 because it was a bargain. A customer had ordered the suit, then went broke and did not…
View ArticleIs The Oyster Overworked?
Writer enjoys going through a special rotogravure section of one Sunday Herald Tribune. It was printed with twelve pages of "benefit advertising" to raise …
View ArticleMr. Considine's Wake
The writer was nine, living in Saratoga, when his parents' friend, Mr. Considine, died. His mother planned to sit up one night of the wake with Mrs. …
View ArticleQuadrennial Inspection
Writer visits Dr. Arbuthnot's Select Academy of Fine Arts. Students there are trying to prove cliches like: "Sleeping forty winks", "Coming into court …
View ArticleThe Hot Potato
In 1931 the writer purchased the only item of erotica that he ever owned - a book called "The Perfumed Garden." He was very nervous taking the book home …
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