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...additions to the family whenever he finds it to be to his advantage. In satirizing prominent people or current events he puts a squashed hat on his subject and gives him a name as near the original as possible. The most popular of these are Kidman Grow, for Dr. Cadman, Martin Grow, for Mr. Martin Lomasney, and Homer Grow, for Mr. Homer Loring. Mr. Collier takes great delight in doing this and says it is very easy as we are really all Grows...
...some humor tucked beneath their sheets. "The Polyglots" had a whole lot--not the Lardner-Witwer-Sherwood-Benchley type, nor even the gentle-professorial-high-and-mighty type--but some real humor. And now someone asks, "What is real humor?" I suppose the best answer, aside from Dr. Cadman's who is now making Brooklyn the Delphi of America--the best answer is silence, since this is not a question and answer column nor is it inspired by the deft delightfulness of syndication. But I have lost "The Polyglots". It may be too much like "Men Prefer Blondes" to appeal...
...PARKES CADMAN...
...those who entertained any lingering doubts about the omniscience of Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, the Herald Tribune appended a list of sample questions and answers...
Other questions, other answers, were printed in the Herald Tribune's advertisement of its new oracle. But a doubt remained, for although Dr. Cadman's many thousand admirers were quite ready to concede that he must "use his vast store of knowledge on innumerable topics with amazing facility," and that he was, as advertised, "WISE, WHIMSICAL, EDUCATIONAL, HELPFUL," there were some who wondered whether his all-embracing wisdom did not permit him to detect the offense proffered to his personal dignity and to his cloth by the ill taste of that circus-barker advertisement...