Word: katzenjammerism
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In the late 1870's a woodcarver named Dirks left his home in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, and shipped himself, wife and nine children to the New World where he settled down in Chicago's West Side lumber yard and railroad district. One son, Rudolph, soon picked up broken...
If brains had legs, most brains would be all legs, or so Walter Boughton Pitkin, breezy professor in Columbia University's School of Journalism, seems to imply. For its gangling lack of intelligence the Professor takes the world to task. Its follies, like its females, show an infinite variety...
The overwhelming appeal of this pair, whose daily mail is prodigious, whose popularity unquestionably exceeds that of any other radio performers, consists chiefly in their blending of simple narrative interest with skillful Negro characterization. People who for years have followed the fortunes of Mutt & Jeff and the Katzenjammer Kids are...
The pity of it all is that the course has or should have considerable interest. Huxley and Darwin are chiefly considered. Their theories are still of present concern. It is true as well that the efforts of Professor Lewis to force his widely dissociated materials into a semblance of form...
*Katzenjammer: "cat-lament" in German.