Word: jokesmith
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Married. Sigourney Thayer of Manhattan, spasmodic theatrical producer, Wartime aviator, Atlantic Monthly poet, socially prominent jokesmith, son of Rev. William Greenough Thayer, headmaster of St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass.; to Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt of Manhattan, who last June, in six minutes, divorced William Henry Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who perished on the Lusitania; in Manhattan. In 1921 Mr. Thayer was in Paris. It is related that he, poor, got to Europe by traveling steerage with a silk hat and no ticket...
That is the most tremendous satire that I have ever come upon; it is stupendous. One would expect that Swift had returned to life for a brief moment, or at least Lewis Carroll (and, of course, Alice with him). It may have been a common jokesmith, but the glory still remains. WM. K. LOMASON University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich...