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Irving S. Cobb: " Said I (apropos of some remarks by E. S. Agnew, Punch Director): ' Americans have a better sense of humor than the British because they have the British to laugh at. The British can't laugh very well because it is difficult to laugh over adenoids...
In an interview last week apropos of his 25 years' editorship of the Saturday Evening Post, he unlocked the secret of that paper's success. "The Post,'' said Mr. Lorimer, " mirrors the drama and romance of work."
An interesting article in Musical America, apropos of the Centenary of Home, Sweet Home, relates that the melody of that famous song is an old Italian tune. Payne, who wrote the lyric, heard a peasant girl in Italy singing a lovely snatch of song. He wrote down the notes, and...
This was apropos of Gustavus of Sweden, who went down to Nice to indulge in a tennis tourney. It was written for digestion by 500,000 readers.
The annual report of Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, continues to repay adventurous excavators. It has been discovered that he said, apropos of freak " special " courses in the public schools: " If the demands of the schools continue to increase at the...