Word: mccutcheon
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...cities are saturated with the literature of escape. Does an old maid or a Babbitt couple pine for romance, they can find it in The New York Journal, the cheap fiction magazines, or the novels of George Barr McCutcheon, Emerson Hough iand Rupert Hughes. Does a young man long for success and a "strong character," he can imagine he is acquiring these things from the American Magazine. Does a harassed and ineffectual "white collar slave" crave some denial of the harshness of existence, he has but to turn to the sermonettes and pepto-optimism concocted daily by Dr. Frank Crane...
...break down in the public "mind the conception of certain arts as minor or insignificant. Would a green uniform help to forward the art of political and social commentary (as expressed in drawn, rather than spoken lines) in this country? We have innumerable competent political artists (Darling, Rollin Kirby, McCutcheon) a few with streaks of genius, none of the stature of Daumier or even of some of the lesser men abroad. If a green uniform would help, let some benefactor import...
Doubles Farnham and Frost (H) defeated Rockhill and McCutcheon (S), 6-4, 6-0; Kleberg and Dibblee (H) defeated Hoh and Graves...
...Hearst headlines escapes the insistent satire of Lampy's humorists. From the late Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the latest novelist they have their pet attainments pricked. Galsworthy, Roche, King, Curwood, Rhinehart, Chambers and Ade--not to mention the artists Flagg, Benda and McCutcheon--all may see themselves as plenty of others see them, on receipt of twenty-five cents by the Lampoon circulation department...
...interior decorations of this special number, something should be said about the Strehlke drawing of the Boston family at dinner. You instinctively look to see McCutcheon's signature in the lower corner, only to find the name of a very clever imitator of the Chicago adept...