Word: humorists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best Keller anecdotes concern Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), her close friend. Clemens and Humorist Finley Peter Dunne were discussing Miss Keller when Dunne exclaimed: "God, how dull it must be for her. every day the same and every night the same as the day!" Said Clemens: "You're damned wrong there; blindness is an exciting business, I tell you; if you don't believe it, get up some dark night on the wrong side of your bed and your house is on fire and try to find the door...
George Ade, humorist (Fables in Slang), rose dripping from his bath tub to answer his telephone at his summer home near Brook, Ind. He skidded, crashed, skittered down the stairs, broke his left...
...other men. The same thing is true of "An Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo" written by William Mudford Esq. and printed in 1816. This artist is more appealing, however, in what is the most valuable and probably the most interesting work in the display, namely "The Humorist, a Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon Mots, etc., etc." The work is made up of several small volumes illustrated in an uproariously grotesque manner...
Ever since 1920 Norman Anthony had been with Judge. He was not educated primarily to be a humorist. On the contrary he went to art school in his native Buffalo and later in New York, and learned to paint compositions of fish and bananas in new and thoughtful poses. His sense of humor could not be stifled, and in 1910, when he was 21 and very free, he eloped with a Buffalo girl. This prank turned out well. Mr. & Mrs. Anthony had two children and Mr. Anthony became a comedian in earnest. After ten years of free-lancing with cartoons...
...first G. O. P. nominee for President ever seen in Tennessee. He stood on a platform in a mountain meadow at Elizabethton and, in the fourth main speech of his campaign proper, addressed the whole South. He implied that he was neither an orator nor a humorist nor particularly a politician. He spoke as a Westerner, as a member of an administration whose record he thought was good, as a champion of the Home, as one who wants to "abolish poverty...