[about Georges Carpentier] He registers the most frightful agony in the ring. The only thing I have seen to match this phase of his art was John Barrymore's reaction to amputation as Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1930).
[parodying one of Cole Porter's most popular songs] Night and day, under the fleece of me, there's an oh, such a flaming furneth burneth the grease of me.
