Cousin Len's Wonderful Adjective Cellar (Details)
citation: Ladies' Home Journal, April 1948, LXV(4):279
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summary: Cousin Len discovers a salt cellar he purchased from a Second Avenue pawnshop can remove superfluous words from his writing. This results in his columns being the "Best reading in the paper, next to the death notices."
Most interesting is what happens when Len empties the adjective cellar. Poured out the window, conversations are suddenly peppered with exotic adjectives and adverbs. Emptying it over the US Senate floor has unanticipated, but not necessarily surprising, results.
words: 1,017
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people: Unnamed Narrator, Cousin Len, Louisa, Mrs. Gorman, Mrs. Miller
places: New York, NY: Second Avenue; Washington, DC: U.S. Senate
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