Word: irwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about, as Don Marquis (He isn't really very old); secondly, that the apologies under the "letter of a Japanese Freshman"--and quite the best bit of prose in the issue--would be more in order if made to the original author of the Schoolboy Epistles, Mr. Wallace Irwin, rather than to the fictitious and mysterious Ervine. Having been wholly disagreeable thus far, may we exhort the Lampoon Editors to pull together and return with the next number to work that will lift the eyebrows of 1928 and prove that Lampy is still what it has been since...
...GOLDEN BED-Wallace Irwin- Putnam ($2.00) . When Flora Lee Peake lay down to sleep, in blanched linen cool and lavendered, four rosewood bedposts carved in the images of four great swans watched her dreaming face, and over her lay a coverlet of antique French lace pricked with a legend that one did not translate aloud. With Admah Holtz, things were otherwise. His white-trash father drank himself to death, day by day, in the cabin kitchen where Ma Holtz made peppermint-drops for her son to hawk in the streets. Sometimes the girls in Miss Martincastle's school patronized...
...Immediately following his nomination, congratulatory telegrams began to reach Mr. Coolidge from all over the world. In the first batch of messages was one from Irwin B. Laughlin, U. S. Minister at Athens. William Howard Taft expressed his joy by telephone...
...Confirmed the nomination of Irwin B. Laughlin to be Minister to Greece. ¶ Adopted unanimously, a resolution requesting that impeachment proceedings be brought against Clarence C. Chase, son-in-law of ex-Secretary Fall. ¶ Passed a bill wiping out a debt of $650,000 of the Near East Relief to the War Department on account of supplies furnished for relief work. ¶ Recommitted a resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, whereby all future amendments would have to be ratified by popular vote (TIME, March 10). This was practically equivalent to defeating the measure...
...President Coolidge nominated Irwin Boyle Laughlin, veteran of 20 years in the diplomatic service, to be Minister to Greece. The post at Athens has been vacant for nearly four years...