Sublime

He also called me an opprobrious name.

Malcolm Cowley assisted me in three important ways: His New Yorker profile of Perkins, “Unshaken Friend,” published in 1944, was the most comprehensive account of Perkins’s life to date.

“Mr. Rutledge was so very young, lanky as a beanpole, with a sharp American accent and a habit of talking so fast, one could scarcely follow him.

malaprop.

Edie pointed to the freaky, frondiferous doll.

One of Brownell’s hard and fast principles was that almost as much could be learned about an author’s abilities through an interview as by reading his manuscript, since “water cannot rise above its source.”

mental note to add antimacassars