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"I Like Words": A Job Seeker's Brilliant Chutzpah

When Academy Award winning screenwriter Robert Pirosh was first looking for a job at a Hollywood studio in 1934, he penned a vocabulary-rich missive, which we found featured on the blog and bookLetters of Note.

An example of brilliant chutzpah, the letter shows eschews any mention of his credentials and demonstrates only his pithy brilliance and rich vocabulary.
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