Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HERE COMES THE BRIDE-Irvin S. Cobb-Doran ($2.00). With the air of a man rolling a cigar in his mouth, savoring it, puffing, chewing the butt, spurting forth smooth smoke-curls and rich juices as the philosophical fruits of his rumination, Humorist Cobb drawls on and on about intoxicants, ancestors, being homely, the zoo, national holidays, Christmas presents "and so forth." Very different from "chewing the rag." He is the delight of a vast audience that relishes: an elaborate Southern simile- (false teeth that clattered) "like a fox-trotting horse with a loose shoe crossing a covered bridge...
...Irvin S. Cobb, Standing Room Only. Editor Ray Long. Cosmopolitan...
...Ross, Ralph Barton, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Rea Irvin, George S. Kaufman, Alice Duer Miller, Dorothy Farker, Laurence Stallings, Alexander Woollcott were the names appearing in the prospectus when the first number of the magazine appeared, it was noted that Heywood Broun, Edna Ferber and Laurence Stallings had disappeared from the list...
GOIN' ON FOURTEEN-Irvin S. Cobb- Doran ($2.50). John C. Calhoun Custer had his 13th birthday the day before the first page of this book. He is spiritual brother to "Penrod," to "Huck Finn," to "Tom Bailey," to all the other naughty urchins whose pranks bring reminiscent lumps to shriveled throats. The story-or series of stories-is true to form. There are adventures with dogs and cats, a treasure-hunting expedition, the inevitable circus, a running away from home. There is tragedy when the village bad boy dies to rescue a contemporary from drowning. The book is like...
...performed this transmorphosis is extremely modest. Irvin S. Cobb, famed humorist, described him by saying: "He likes double- breasted sack coats, large brunette cigars, his friends, chocolate bonbons, his family, the Grand Canyon, two cups of coffee for breakfast, and rhododendrons on his front lawn...