
Cemeteries rarely serve as pitch rooms, yet in Roars and Uproars the late Mr. P. Nutt converts his marble mausoleum into a corporate headquarters, dictating through brassy phonograph cylinders that his glittering estate will bypass the usual clutch of clamorous cousins and instead land in the lap of his flapper-era ni...


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" Cemeteries rarely serve as pitch rooms, yet in Roars and Uproars the late Mr. P. Nutt converts his marble mausoleum into a corporate headquarters, dictating through brassy phonograph cylinders that his glittering estate will bypass the usual clutch of clamorous cousins and instead land in the lap of his flapper-era niece—provided she hitch her satin train to a ‘certifiable luminary.’ The clause is deliciously cruel: she must marry a genius whom the world calls crazy, a semantic pretzel that tur..."


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