Word: balch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ELBERT HUBBARD: GENIUS OF ROYCROFT -David Arnold Balch-Stokes...
...Hubbard ever after blasted colleges: "A college de gree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it." When his affair with Schoolmistress Alice Moore created a national scandal, he coined and widely promoted an epigram on gossips: "When in doubt, mind your own business." Biographer Balch takes 320 pages to seek (vainly) for the clue to Elbert Hubbard's contradictory character. The shrewdest characterization is that of the Scottish comedian, Sir Harry Lauder...