Word: joe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scandinavian dialogue men, Olsen and Johnson, comprise the best patter team this reviewer has heard since Joe Brown and partner forsook the Follies for the films. They weep while reciting successive nifties and Mr. Johnson flings himself at the floor with frequent heart-broken abandon. One that panicked the cash customers started: "What would you be if your great-grandfather was a thief, grandfather was a thief, and father was a thief...
...lose, or draw, this marks Joe Forecast's swan-song. Never again will the Forecast pen disturb the virgin whiteness of paper. I pass on to bigger, better, and more lucrative fields. Whither matters not--sufficient to say that next year, and the years thereafter (unless Joe, Jr. suddenly turns intelligent) the CRIMSON readers must figure for themselves the outcome of the games...
...will be the smiles, hearty the chuckles, wise the "cracks," between Republican Floorleader Curtis and Democratic Floorleader Robinson. Campaigning against each other will have altered their mutual feelings no more than it altered the lack of feeling between the Messrs. Smith and Hoover, who never met. "Charlie" Curtis and "Joe" Robinson are friends as good & old as are "Charlie" Curtis and that other "Charlie," Vice President Dawes, with whom Senator Curtis last week shook hands and beamed at cameras on the Capitol steps...
...will enter the lists, and boldly pick Yale, though there is every reason why Princeton should win. This is a great test of my power. If I win, there will be considerable justification in the word that is going the rounds that Joe Forecast's support is worth more than a good backfield. And here are the scores...
This last-named is a convert from musical comedy, and does himself proud on the now seldom silent screen. Joe is known principally for his mouth, the largest in captivity. It extends from ear to ear and part way back again...