Word: dubs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undoubtedly crowds poured out their money to see the "Battle of a Century", and crowds invariably gather to hall a champion prize-fighter, or watch an automobile accident, or a dub being photographed; just as what O. Henry called "professional rubberneckers" have dons from time immemorial. But all this overflow of curiosity to gaze on champions, or white elephants, for that matter, is certainly not now and does not indicate a state of moral depravity any more now that it did in the days of that prince of "rubberneckers", Samuel Pepys, who "did wait two hours to behold the King...
...After all, it is the educated people who, by the large, are the happiest; that background social, philosophical, aesthetic that detached point of view which education gives, somehow helps to preserve one's equanimity amid the vicissitudes of existence. Such being the case, Mr. Seaver can not, with decency, dub "Pharisee" and "hypocrite" those who are anxious to place the means of happiness within reach of all; and this suggestion most certainly should not be greeted by the working youth with "an uncultured guffaw or a contentious snort according to the condition of his uneducated liver", whether it comes from...