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...eminent professor's idea is a good one: to denounce slang in terms of slang; to turn the enemy's own guns upon him. But the campaign might well be carried further by the embattled members of the Society for the Preservation of Pure English. George Ade, with his "Fables in Slang" could be given a chair in the Department of Classics; Ring Lardner should be appointed to a professorship in English; and Rube Goldberg ought immediately to be elected president of the Advocate...
WEBSTER'S POKER BOOK-H. T. Webster, George Ade, G. F. Worts, Marc Connelly, R. F. Foster-Simon, Schuster ($2.50). Cartoonist Webster long ago laid hold on the ventricles of the U. S. public. Even his illustrated bridge pads are said to get laughs from Long Island to Los Angeles. Now, through the Barnum-and-Baileys of the publishing business, he presents a whole book about his cigar-chewing, telephoning, lying, bluffing, smirking, grinning fiction, the Great American Poker Player, trigged out with dialog and dialects by the satisfying Messrs. Ade and Connelly. Mr. Foster, aspirant to the shoes...
...unknown author of the Gillette razor advertisements writes good English, for it is "Kicky". Popular slogans, selling talks, and George Ade are the acme of literary perfection, and the unfortunate essayist or philosopher is tossed to the limbo of the unfit, for he cannot quality. Alas! the gods of yesterday are not the gods of tomorrow...
...exterior of the wing has been the result of an ingenuous engineering feat. There stood from 1822 to 1914 one of the most beautiful façades in America-that of the old U. S. Assay office. Business caused its destruction. Art has preserved it. Every stone of the façade was carefully numbered, transported to the museum. It has been reproduced as the South Façade of the American Wing...
Journalists are like the unfortunate Englishman of American descent in George Ade's fable--"neither the one thing nor the other." Theirs is not a trade like brass-polishing or carpentering, which require long apprenticeships. The fact that any untrained man can become a good reporter within a very few months has made it difficult for journalism to rise to the rank of a profession. And where there is ease of entrance, there will be found many undesirable candidates. Mr. H. L. Menoken, in a burst of constructive criticism says that newspaper men must control the various schools of journalism...