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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irritated him. Many of us often thought that King would have liked to have the memory of that ditty buried. It obscured the value of the pungent wit and humor which poured in a continual and effortless stream from his typewriter into the pages of the Spokane Spokesman-Review and into his books. These books-collections of fine humorous verse, What the Queen Said, The Raspberry Tree and others-must and will pass into future collections of Americana as characteristic of this age. We who knew King, however slightly, feel it would be ignoble in his death to permit...
...article "Written for The Literary Digest by J. Frederick Essary." (Dr. Funk: "Adam, did you ever hear of original contributions in the Digest?" Dr. Wagnalls: "Never before, Isaac.") ¶ Clean typography. ¶ Staff-written articles based on newspaper news. ¶ A Washington letter signed "Diogenes." ¶ Sport and cinema reviews, specially written and signed. ¶ Good old Digest pleasantries. ("Beauties in distress," was what the Digest called some unemployed women at an emergency relief camp.) If Drs. Funk & Wagnalls had suspected the newsdealer was playing a joke on them, they might have hurried to the Digest office and seen copies...
During the War Stod King served in the Washington National Guard. When he was discharged he went back to the Spokane Spokesman-Review, the newspaper on which he worked before he went East to Yale. The Spokesman mourned deeply last week the passing of its best colyumist, a man who, News Editor Malcolm Glendenning said, had never once turned in a poor piece of copy, who knew as much about sport as he did about turning out neat comic rhymes for his daily "Facetious Fragments." Yalemen who were in college just before the War remembered Stod King's brilliant...
...song is carved still deeper in the history of the War. Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Tenor Enrico Caruso sang it in Liberty Loan drives. Elsie Janis sang it in France from the back of a truck. The first U. S. troops to land in England marched in review to it before Ambassador Page and Admiral Sims. British soldiers sang it when they were lined up on deck waiting to be taken off the torpedoed troop ship Tyndarius. They sang it after the Armistice when they marched across the bridge into Cologne. In London the massed bands of the Guards...
...last week's Spectator (insurance tradepaper) Dr. Hoffman presented his annual review of U. S. suicides. In 1932, he estimated, 23,000 people killed themselves and another 33,000 tried to do so. Popular methods were illuminating gas (most popular), jumping from buildings and bridges, hanging, shooting, poisoning...