Word: adee
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hearst headlines escapes the insistent satire of Lampy's humorists. From the late Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the latest novelist they have their pet attainments pricked. Galsworthy, Roche, King, Curwood, Rhinehart, Chambers and Ade--not to mention the artists Flagg, Benda and McCutcheon--all may see themselves as plenty of others see them, on receipt of twenty-five cents by the Lampoon circulation department...
...five years the number of graduate students in Economics continues to increase at the present rate, the standard of instruction in the undergraduate courses will tend to be raised; whereas if the number should decline to the level of ten years ago, the Department would be unable to provide ade quately for its undergraduate work...
...Flandraus! Mr. Crane chooses a graduate of "L--" College for hero, and though his plot is highly imaginative he succeeds in presenting a very much more convincing picture of the normal undergraduate state of mind. Mr. Courtney is sensational: he breaks away from his cherished George Ade tradition and gives us "A Romance of the Reel" that would need more than the usual expository interpolations in large white type and interpretative music by the talented young lady to make it intelligible even to a trained "movie" audience...
...only story in the number, My Friend of the Smoking Room, should be powerful or nothing. It is not powerful, nor is its style workmanlike; but it is an honest effort to express the struggle in a wrecked life. Little Doddy--or Much Wampum, an imitation of George Ade, is the saddest reading in the number and belongs to a generation that prefers colored supplements to Du Maurier and George Ade to Thackeray. To Write or Not to Write is a commendably serious and poorly written essay. The Effect of Plattsburgh is clear and helpful without distinction. The City...