Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winking his eye. Stephen Leacock's popularity has lasted longer than most. From Literary Lapses to My Discovery of England his books have been funny with a certain consistency. Canadian by birth, professor of political economy by profession, a raconteur who has only one equal in my experience [Irvin Cobb], he is a solid, jolly, gloom- defying gentleman. Ruddy of countenance, with hair slightly graying and usually rumpled, a bristly mustache, large shoulders and a stocky trunk, he talks positively and punctuates his conversation with loud and infectious laughter...
STICKFULS, THE COMPOSITIONS OF A NEWSPAPER MINION?Irvin S. Cobb ?Doran ($2.00). Aside from being one of the most characteristic and uproarious of American humorists, Mr. Cobb has been an eminently successful newspaper man. In this account of journalistic adventure he takes pains to upset a few cherished fallacies regarding life in the city room...
...Mary Roberts Rinehart and Irvin S. Cobb done exactly the same thing a couple years ago but not any better, in fact not so good, although maybe they made more sense...
...Irvin S. Cobb: " I boarded a taxi in Manhattan, and was taken on such a wild ride that I finally had the chauffeur arrested for reckless driving. He got 15 days in the workhouse and I got a bad scare...
...Annual Fall Regatta is to be held from October 24 to 26 on the upper half-mile course. Heat A, which will be run off at 3 o'clock October 24, includes the following men: J. O. Bangs '25, E. D. Emerson '25, J. J. Irvin 1L., L. J. Moore 2G., George Turitz '23, and P. von H. Wooldridge...