Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to supply him with what he needed. Finally he was informed that what he wanted was a "paper cutter." He was immediately relieved and carried this ivory implement about with him all day. He has been in town only a week and he has met "everyone," from Irvin Cobb to Gloria Swanson. He is so friendly and so human that it scarcely seems fair to catalog him as an English novelist...
...must be difficult to be a good humorist and still remain a human being. Irvin Cobb has done that; but, after all, his humor is Brobdingnagian. It partakes of brown gravy, and of cream puffs thrown wantonly. F. P. A. is occasionally human, though at times he seems to become the war sage looking at life through the war glasses of an ironist. Robert C. Benchley is almost human. Perhaps if I could see him weep once, I should actually believe in his humanity. Thomas Masson is human; but his humor is the genial story. He is the raconteur...
Engaged. Miss Elizabeth Cobb, daughter of Irvin S. Cobb, to Frank Michler Chapman, Jr., Princeton Senior. Lately she has been doing editorial work on the staff of The Bookman...
...Irvin S. Cobb, who places his high-priced humor at the disposal of the suitings business...
...Irvin S. Cobb, whose side-splitting after-dinner stories have for over a year helped to carry the advertising in some hundreds of newspapers, has apparently made an even more lucrative strike. He is writing advertisements signed by himself. Notable this week was his full-page panegyric of " Jack Tar Togs " in the Saturday Evening Post...