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# Ira
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/31327/
- Published: 2014-02-18T07:21:07.000Z
- Updated: 2014-02-18T07:21:07.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Ira Gershwin and his wife and another couple were about to go out to dinner at a fashionable Manhattan restaurant. Gershwin offered to call for a table. He returned to say none was available. “Let me try,” said the other man. He returned to announce that they indeed had a table available. Everyone wanted to know how he was able to accomplish this. “Simple,” he said, “I told them I was Ira Gershwin.” (Lifted from Joseph Epstein's *Snobbery*)