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...Duchess, ex-Susie Potter of Chicago, had been separated since the latter's accouchement, 20 years ago. She loved him-but he was a roué-oh such a roué!-so she took her millions and their daughter (his little daughtaire 'e 'ad not seen 'ardly at all) and came to America, intent upon marrying daughter to a nice, clean-cut, young American millionaire, sans blue blood or indiscriminately amorous proclivities...
...have the fastest locomotives, the biggest hotels, the longest railroads, and the largest crops in the world, and 'these measurements are their chief justification. Not how fine but how much is our motto, and the circus has made of this article of American faith a dazzling reductio ad absurdum. The influence of Barnum, the father of Buncombe, on American culture is incalculable. The whole paraphernalia of circus terminology has been lifted bodily from the circus by the moving picture people, who measure their productions, not in dramatic values, but in thrills, shocks and statistics. The same thing is true...
...feature an allegedly true story entitled Mercy. "One day a chilling shadow fell," says the blurb. "While Mrs. Wills, with her two small sons, was away on a visit to her parents, the Reverend Robert N. Wills disappeared-and with him the pretty dark-eyed organist!" Then the ad takes on bolder type: "A story of a once prominent minister and his life expiation for a moment's madness." "A story that never got into the newspapers because a whole city held its secret in- violate." Ray Long edits the Cosmopolitan for Mr. Hearst. He says he is printing...
...Jack Tar apparel is sold by the Strouse-Baer Co. of Baltimore. They have double-stitched seams and re-inforcements at the strain points. They cost $3.95. The ad is illustrated by Tony Sarg. On either side of the display appear the faces of Cobb and Sarg, smirking knowingly...
...Committee's naive optimism is remarkable. It forgets that the ban placed on Rabelais has probably doubled the readers of "Gargantua," while "Jurgen," since the allurement of censorship was removed, has fallen in value from twenty-five dollars to a mere two-fifty. A half-page ad like this will be commonplace: "Read 'Love and Law." The Clean Books League calls it 'the greatest outrage against decency and morality in the last decade...