Word: grossian
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...above Milt Grossian verses were to be seen issuing out of the mouth of a farmer of decidedly Hebraic aspect drawn last week by able Cartoonist Will Johnstone in the New York World. Cartoonist Johnstone's fantasy was inspired by the annual report of the Jewish Agricultural Society, Inc., whose president : no less eminent a Jew than Percy Selden Straus, famed Manhattan merchant-philanthropist (R. H. Macy & Co. Inc.). The report declared, to the surprise of Cartoonist Johnstone, that there are now some 90,000 Jewish farmers in the U. S. as against some 1,000 when the Agricultural...
...comparable to "Nize Baby", but even in the type of stories told. For example, in this latest work we again meet "De Boston Tea Potty", "Crissty Colombiss" and the perpetual menace of "Leetle Rad Riding Hood." But then perhaps the possibilities are limited. They are, indeed, between the Grossian and Burbigian dialects. As one well versed in the variations of 'English as she is spoke', this reviewer, at a guess, would say that the raconteur of Mr. Burbig's stories is of mixed Jewish and Italian parentage and that he learned his English somewhere in Amsterdam Ave. As a result...
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