Sublime

He did not, naturally enough, as a practical businessman, waste much time pondering first principles.

They were sitting, this evening, on either side of Charles Holmes, who was an Englishman, and who, from shyness, talked and listened with a habitual vagueness, glancing at Dora, his wife, sitting opposite.

Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books; nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned

One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupper-ware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had

sybaritic

Howard W. Sams proves in his Winston Niles Rumfoord, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci

Arthur Bostwick’s The American Public Library (4th edition; New York: Appleton, 1929) and Francis Drury’s Book Selection (Chicago: American Library Association, 1930).