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Addressing the Buffalo Advertising Club, Professor Burges Johnson, chairman of the department of English at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. and onetime editor-in-chief of Judge, declared: "Mark Twain is the alltime, all-America cusser. He could cuss five solid minutes without repeating himself...
Refusing to meet Elliott Roosevelt the local airport, Pittsburgh's eccentric Mayor William Nissley McNair growled: "I won't shake hands with of the Roosevelts." The President's second son said he thought Mayor McNair "a surly sort of cuss...
...more Whitmanesque vein: he is large, he contains multitudes. Touted as a short-story writer, mostly because his "stones" are written in prose, he seldom sets down a formal narrative. Most of his "stories" are poetic shouts-no less lyrical for being written in street-language with many a cuss word-swelling the chorus of a "Song of Myself." It might almost have been Saroyan who wrote...
...time-honored method of flirting with another man, finds the other man more attractive than the husband, runs away with him. And it represents Tallulah Bankhead's third time at bat this season (previous plays: Dark Victory, Rain). While Something Gay affords Miss Bankhead ample opportunity to cuss and cuddle, its dialog is so low-pressure, its scheme so trivial that critics sorrowfully had to credit her with another strikeout. Actress Bankhead is evidently having as much difficulty finding a proper vehicle for her lush talents as her Congressional father and uncle are having trying to grope their legislative...
...Gailmont last December. Much puzzled by the metamorphic career of Aknahton, racing enthusiasts found out no more about him until last week when E. Phocion Howard, publisher of the lively racing weekly New York Press, printed an interview with one Paddy Barrie, whom he described as "an engaging little cuss." Paddy Barrie, an ex-jockey of Scotch extraction who professed to have ridden in two Grand Nationals and to have collaborated on newspaper articles with the late Author Edgar Wallace, told all about the dyeing of Aknahton, gave out valuable hints on "ringing'' in general...