If the English version is in what, in our youth, we used to speak of affectionately as dear old iambic… — Dorothy Parker
If the English version is in what, in our youth, we used to speak of affectionately as dear old iambic pentameter, the actors mercifully abstain from reciting it that way; they speak their lines as good, hardy prose. p. 76
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