Word: bartonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each with an alleged joke written out upon it by such folk as Governor Brewster of Maine, Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, Mayor Curley of Boston, Mayor Hylan of New York, Colyumnist Don Marquis, Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, Actor Charles Winninger, Mrs. Charles Winninger (stage name: Blanche Ring), Publicist Bruce Barton, Jackie Coogan. The collection was entitled A Log of Laughter, One Laugh A Day. Provided they do not get stranded in the North, MacMillan and friends can count upon one loud laugh per day until the return. Specimen joke: "A Jew was solving a crossword puzzle. He said...
...Armies are of three kinds," said Major General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice,* military historian and former Director of Operations on the British Imperial General Staff...
...theatre in which every other seat was vacant, presumably to accommodate those who were beside themselves with the heat, The Right to Love was presented to a few late-season audiences lured in by a poster which stated: "Mary Barton says-It is the God-given right of every woman to have at least one child without any questions asked." They found that this Mary Barton, who kept an informal hostelry at Falls City, Md., had tested her hypothesis by bearing an illegitimate lad who, being naive as well as natural, supported her contention by never asking who his father...
Rapid in style as a circus poster, with about the same literary value; sound in doctrine because it is concerned with the concrete thing, the life of Christ, instead of the cloudy figuration, Christianity; unsound because it is totally uncritical, this book is an earnest attempt by Mr. Barton to make Christ in his own image...
...NOBODY KNOWS-Bruce Barton -Bobbs-Merrill...