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...ARTEMUS C. WARD Moose Jaw, Sask...
...Artemus Smith (a hardheaded businessman): As I was saying, Joe. I'm tired of all this pussyfooting. Why not come right out and call it a depression...
...Then came that memorable day, July 2, 1775, when General Washington--decked out in "blue cost, buff under-dress, and rich epaulette on each shoulder"--marched down the road from Watertown. At this point, historians have gone to all extremes to affirm or deny that Washington accepted command from Artemus Ward under a certain elm (The Washington Elm). The most convincing account shows that because of poor weather and other complications, Washington could not have accepted command under this elm. Yet for years afterward, the tree was nursed and trimmed to a ripe old age of 202. Then...
...average man doesn't know much about psychiatry, but he knows what he dislikes and suspects about it. One psychiatrist, paraphrasing Artemus Ward, has said of his specialty: "In no other field of medical knowledge does the average man know so many things that...
...about that double meaning. There was no such thing. The gag that horrified Mr. Leech had jes' one single meaning. A few days later Gracie Allen used precisely the same gag on the air. American humorists going back from Chic Sale to Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward have all had fun with just such gags. Everybody laughed, nobody griped-just Leech...