Life, Shoeshine has observed, is full of irony. When Lew Brown wrote the lyrics to ‘Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries’ in 1931, the Western world was in the grip of the Great Depression. (Shoeshiners, of course, remember it well).
While the song may be jaunty, when someone says “life is a bowl
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