Word: normans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some time, it would seem, the publishers of Life have been getting most of their fun out of reading the brisk, bright pages of their foolish contemporary and lifelong rival, Judge. Life itself didn't seem half so funny as it ought to be. So eventually they beguiled Norman Hume Anthony, editor of Judge, to come over and take Sherwood's place...
Ever since 1920 Norman Anthony had been with Judge. He was not educated primarily to be a humorist. On the contrary he went to art school in his native Buffalo and later in New York, and learned to paint compositions of fish and bananas in new and thoughtful poses. His sense of humor could not be stifled, and in 1910, when he was 21 and very free, he eloped with a Buffalo girl. This prank turned out well. Mr. & Mrs. Anthony had two children and Mr. Anthony became a comedian in earnest. After ten years of free-lancing with cartoons...
...squalid. But it is easy to escape this ugliness and squalor, if one should see it at all. Walking is a pleasant pastime, still profitable and possible in and about Oxford. Will any man forego the walk along the Isis to Ifley, and a peep at the fine Norman village church there? Who has been so listless as to neglect the upper Isis, sampling delicacies and a good tea at the Trout Inn, and pausing to think of Fair Rosamond at the Godstow Nunnery? Boars' Hill, with a view of Oxford on one side and the Berkshire Downs...
...Gordian Knot was cut when M. Briand summoned to his Paris office Norman Armour, Charge d'Affaires of the local U. S. embassy, and asked him to transmit a note from the League, not to Secretary of State Kellogg, but to Chairman Kellogg of the Pan-American Conference...
Charge d'Affaires Norman Armour pondered the proposition well, then announced that he would do as M. Briand wished, ''upon the distinct understanding that what is being asked is merely a courtesy...