Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Picture the consternation of the fans if Tyrus Cobb should try to beat himself to death with his bat after striking out with the bases full...
...Irvin S. Cobb, who places his high-priced humor at the disposal of the suitings business...
...Irvin S. Cobb, whose side-splitting after-dinner stories have for over a year helped to carry the advertising in some hundreds of newspapers, has apparently made an even more lucrative strike. He is writing advertisements signed by himself. Notable this week was his full-page panegyric of " Jack Tar Togs " in the Saturday Evening Post...
...Jack Tar apparel is sold by the Strouse-Baer Co. of Baltimore. They have double-stitched seams and re-inforcements at the strain points. They cost $3.95. The ad is illustrated by Tony Sarg. On either side of the display appear the faces of Cobb and Sarg, smirking knowingly...
...winking his eye. Stephen Leacock's popularity has lasted longer than most. From Literary Lapses to My Discovery of England his books have been funny with a certain consistency. Canadian by birth, professor of political economy by profession, a raconteur who has only one equal in my experience [Irvin Cobb], he is a solid, jolly, gloom- defying gentleman. Ruddy of countenance, with hair slightly graying and usually rumpled, a bristly mustache, large shoulders and a stocky trunk, he talks positively and punctuates his conversation with loud and infectious laughter...