A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.

[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.

This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

Streets full of water. Please Advise.

I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.