"... I fuss around with commas, semi-colons, dictionaries, and wordings, and it drives me crazy. I am too virile. I ought to be building subways. I was thinking of going to the with the but that would take a year or two and I can spare, at most, only two months. It probably would be a bore anyhow. All life is a bore if you think at all...."
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Harold Ross
(November 6, 1892 – December 6, 1951) was an American journalist and editor. In 1925 he, with his wife , founded ' and was the magazine's editor-in-chief until 1951, when he developed lung cancer.
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