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Random Knowledge - March 2020

Random Knowledge - March 2020 An MPDMedia Audio Book Fifteen selections from the public domain, ranging from a memoir of pioneers from 1857 to cultural reviews of 1924. Algonquin Roundtabler Alexander Woollcott fairly accurately predicts theater in 1944; Sir Hugh Clifford reminiscences about his friend, Joseph Conrad; Jane Wilde relates Ireland's most famous imp; Harry Carr dishes on the hoi polloi of 1923 Hollywood; Miss Grace Harriman encourages ladies to put their green thumbs to profit in Victorian England; George Moore tells the tale of a tragic marriage; Ike Swift sketches a beautiful blonde thief of 1900's NYC; Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens wax metaphors to the max; Allan Ross Macdougall and Burton Rascoe trash 20's burlesque and literature; The Independent questions the voting public's intellect; and I talk about the magic of manual sweeping.

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