Word: adee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper (the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., largest in the South, assets, $31,000,000) towers up, its façade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening...
Former Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana, brother-in-law of George Ade (humorist), unsuccessful farmer, K. K. K. enthusiast, now lies sick in the Atlanta penitentiary, where he was sent two years ago for using the mails to defraud. In April, big Senator Watson, politically powerful, pleaded before President Coolidge for the convict's release; last week he tried again (bringing along the other Indiana Senator). But the convict's term of ten years, despite the convict's friends, remains unabbreviated...
...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...