Peter Arno's Hurried Note

As he [Peter Arno] told Joseph Mitchell:  "I don't think anything could be as much fun as to get a good hold on a pompous person and shake him or her until you can hear the false teeth rattling."

—Michael Maslin

Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonist

New York:  Regan Arts, 2016, p. 50

Who was Arno calling a pompous person? A woman languishing in her bath perhaps? Idly tasting bon-bons? Dangling a cigarette holder? Dictating a white lie to an amanuensis? What on earth could Arno be all fired up about?

"Er—'Dear Cousin Clara:  Just a hurried note before I catch my train'."
Peter Arno, Original art
The New Yorker, March 17, 1928, page 22

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"Er—'Dear Cousin Clara:  Just a hurried note before I catch my train'."
Peter Arno, The New Yorker, March 17, 1928, page 22

Note:  There are two things you can find a fair amount of around here:

Peter Arno

Original New Yorker cartoon art

Now would you please hand me the soap?

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