Word: combe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...propaganda for his release, twenty-five celebrated literary men have contributed to a volume in his honor. When all is said and done, we usually consider creative thinkers best qualified to judge human motives. These writers range in variety from the undoubted Americanism of Percy McKaye and James Whit comb Riley to men of the fame of Barbusse and Wells. Again, about a million American citizens thought enough of him to vote for him for the highest office in their gift. Now we reach a question of Americanism. Personally, my Americanism is of such a kind that I prefer...
...fancy, to any deficiencies in this year's board, but rather to the limited opportunity offered by the subject of this latest Lampoon. There is too little variety--after all when one has amusingly pictured and described a "Practical Canary Bird Feeder," or has devised a "Combination Comb and Worm Kit," one has sufficiently treated the usual contributions to "Popular Mechanics." To fill a whole number, then, involves some repetition, and, perhaps, at times some tedium for the reader. Of course an excursion into the advertising pages of the model offers the jaded Lampoon contributor one more field for jesting...