I’m much better now, in fact, than I was when we started. That gifted entertainer, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, author of “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith” (four volumes, neatly boxed, suitable for throwing purposes), reverts to tripe in a new book deftly entitled “Lay Sermons.”ĭorothy Parker, writing as ‘Constant Reader’ (22 October 1927). Jokes about throwing books long pre-date Ziff’s, and O’Toole found a couple of examples from Dorothy Parker: O’Toole was unable to identify the “critic”, and there is always the possibility that the joke was original to Ziff and attributed to an anonymous critic because it was funnier that way. One critic said: “ It is not a book to be lightly thrown aside. Miller, who contributes now and again to Inside Track, once wrote a book titled “To You I Tell It.” It received mixed reviews. This was investigated in 2013 by Garson O’Toole (aka ‘Quote Investigator’), who traced the joke back to a 1958 column by Sid Ziff, then sports editor of the Los Angeles Mirror News:
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