Word: interview
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keen eye trained to observe the antics of one's fellow men and a fine sense of humor are the prime requisites for a cartoonist," declared Clare Briggs, America's leading cartoonist in an interview with the CRIMSON. Briggs whose drawings are published in over 175 American newspapers, is the author of a number of series of cartoons, among the best known being "Ain't it a Grand and Glorious Feelin'?", "When a Feller Needs a Friend." "Someone is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life", "Mr. and Mrs.", and "Real Folks at Home...
...writer, nowadays, who disparages anything typical of America or Americans is immediately branded an imitator of H. L. Mencken," declared Herbert Asbury in an interview with the CRIMSON. Asbury, who is on the staff of the New York Herald-Tribune, is known as the author of "Hatrack," a short story which caused the suppression of the American Mercury last spring, and of "Up from Methodism...
...request for the resignation of patrolmen Gordon, Culhane, Pryor and Toomey, was the result of a personal interview held on Saturday between President Lowell and Chief McBride of the Cambridge police. Gordon and Pryor officially refused to resign, and Culhane and Toomey, when interviewed, said that they planned to do likewise...
Many years ago, when War raged and Herbert Hoover fed the Belgians, Manhattan reporters found on the passenger list of an incoming steamer the name Herbert W. Hoover. They quivered. Here was the great relief-worker returning unexpectedly. He would give them an interview. A man came down the gangplank, a square-jawed man of port. They surrounded him; clamored questions. The man, nonplussed for but a moment, smiled...
Christmas presents are hung on a shoetree. Carols are proposed, " 'But don't bring Earl,'" says the laundress. A Princeton co-ed sisbooms "ad Nassaum." Yale sings "Beulah, Beulah." Funnyman Donald Ogden Stewart's technique is borrowed for an interview with Golfer Bobby Jones, aged one, in a lavatory. Pleased with himself, Mr. Lardner then interviews Horace Greeley in a bathtub. Toward the end of the book a Laplander lands in his lap. They marry and live in Gluten, N. Y. Divorce ensues. Queen Marie sings "Dat watahmelyon hangin' on de vine." He marries...