"'She ought to have her mouth full of hairpins,' said the humorist."
See also Futurist art.
ASTRONOMY
FINNEGAN—"Oh, yis, Oi can undershtand how thim astronomers can calkilate th' distance av a shtarr, its weight, and dinsity and color and all thot—but th' thing thot gets me is, how th' divvle do they know its name."
I think the stars do nod at me,
But not when people are about;
For they regard me curiously