Word: graebisch
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...book which is as anecdotal as a Walter Winchell column. Whit Burnett discourses on the traditions of U. S. humor, jumps to an account of "Graebisch University," a joke institution which met at a Manhattan attorney's house for semi-scatologic and pedantic wisecracking; of moving Lewis Gannett's lake in Connecticut; the history of Story Magazine from its mimeographed inception (67 copies) in Vienna in 1931. He transcribes the cute sayings of his son David, letters from Saroyan, wisecracks about his appendectomy and tonsillectomy (even his surgeon was literary), hypochondria on two continents, occasionally throws...
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