Word: pabulum
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...pieces of a light and entertaining nature. They persist in looking for 'funny' articles - 'side-splitters' is their other euphonious name for it." The News adds that it is content to let the matter rest where it is, "for to our taste - depraved probably - light sketches are as satisfactory pabulum as warmed-over witty stories; in general literature to us Hawthorne is as entertaining as Josh Billings." The self-complacency with which the News compares its sketches to the works of Hawthorne is something grand and awe-inspiring...