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...people. His books, his pamphlets, his articles, went broadcast over Kansas, over the U. S., beyond the continent. They had fetching illustrations, wonderful titles: The Corns that Kansas Farmers Have, Alfalfa's Affinity, The Hog's Happy Habitat, The Beef Steer and His Sister, The Helpful Hen. Some of his work went out at his own expense, some at the expense of the State. Once the Kansas legislature, fearful of the way he overshadowed it, denied him his annual appropriation for postage. There is a story that once a letter from England addressed "To the Man who made...
...Minneapolis, one Mrs. Betty Smilow prepared a hen for stewing, found in the gizzard three emeralds, four 22-caliber empty cartridge shells...
...course, like the old discussion of the hen and the egg, it might be debated whether the American comic moulded American life or American life expressed itself through the comic. Actually, however, the comic has developed into an organ of social satire, an ogre which sees, as Mencken says of women, "with bright and horrible eyes" all of the weaknesses and vices of men and broadcasts this knowledge to the world. The "funnies" are terribly realistic, destructive, usually pessimistic criticisms of everything although the most popular subjects are domestic life, business and personal adventure. But the delight of ridiculing...
Lanky Havers, "nervous as a hen," missed easy puts. Genial, confident Sarazen drove almost as far as the hard-hitting Briton, knocked out six birdies in the last day's play...
...like Lloyd George, Clemencean, and the Kaiser cannot get along without wars any more than a hen can get along without laying eggs," Syud Hossain, Indian journalist and descendant of the prophet Mohammed, told the Liberal Club yesterday in his speech on "Eastern and Western Ideals." "The war-maker cannot make peace...