Word: invents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mechanics." To fill a whole number, then, involves some repetition, and, perhaps, at times some tedium for the reader. Of course an excursion into the advertising pages of the model offers the jaded Lampoon contributor one more field for jesting, but at last he must fall tamely back to invent a new contrivance or a new "helpful hint," which, however painstaking in its working up, suffers from close association with too many of its kind. Such are the penalties of "special numbers" except where the subject lends itself more easily to varied treatment. That the number, in spite...
...chance for a real barter here is too imposing to miss. Visions of imported tweeds and cheviots fascinate the youthful mind, and not until the "nominal payment" is made does bitter realization dawn. Verify, there is one born every minute. And as time goes on, human ingenuity will invent other bait for the fish; may we not shortly have the privilege of hailing the affable bootlegger with his spurious case of champagne, Canadian Club or Chianti...