Word: irwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are two subjects of current humor which should henceforth be debarred from further mistreatment. These are, of course, any further correspondence of Mr. Irwin's prodigious Japanese Freshman, and the Whiskey Rebellion, which has already been afforded ample space in Mr. Donald Ogden Stewart's inimitable bit in the "Parody Outline of History," in which Mr. Stewart expounds the theory of this liqueured revolt in a very amusing imitation of the bedtime story style of Thornton Burgess. All of which is very interesting but has little to do with the Lampoon's recent offspring. The point in question...
Inez Haynes Irwin, The Spring Flight* Editor Harry P. Burton. McCall...
About the year 1911, May Irwin, famed comedienne, introduced to Manhattan one of these levee-songs, The Bully. Musical critics noted the arrival of ragtime. James Weldon Johnson (now Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) announced in print that ragtime had musical possibilities. He further observed that the original ragtime tunes were Negro folk songs set down by composers, a statement supported by the fact that all the first popular songs in this tempo treated Negro subjects in negroid English...
...liberal college is still supposed to persist despite this fact. Most of us shall leave Cambridge, sheepskin, honors, keys at also, we shall carry with us a smile for these hypocritic days: also a pretty little chip on our shoulders. If this be error and upon me proved . . . Irwin Rosen...
...Visitors at the White House included: the Massachusetts delegation in Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, for a "social" breakfast; the Congressional members of a Commission appointed to arrange the celebration of the 200th anniversary (in 1932) of the birth of George Washington, for breakfast; Frank J. Irwin, National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans to discuss plans for adequate hospital facilities for veterans; Mickey Walker, welterweight boxing champion, to present a pair of five-ounce boxing gloves with the injunction: "Use 'em on your next Congress;" George Spring Meyer, of Reno, to present a photograph of the graduating class...