All right, have it your way - you heard a…

All right, have it your way - you heard a seal bark!

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Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (30 January 1932); “Women and Men”, The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (1932); also used in “The Lady on the Bookcase”, Alarms and Diversions (1957).

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My opposition lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. - View Quote Details on My opposition lies in the fact that offhand answers have…