Word: sophistication
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President oft-twitted, was rudely chucked under the chin last week by Socialist-Sophist Upton Sinclair of Pasadena, who announced the publication of an allegedly humorous political satire entitled The Spokesman's Secretary: Being the Letters of Mame to Mom. Stenographer Mame reports the antics of -"the greatest Man in the whole wide world" astride an electric "camelephant" (exercise machine) and how she tells him what to tell newsgatherers to tell the people to think. Author Sinclair's announcement betrayed lame borrowings from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, moronese novelette by Author Anita Loos...
...unknown sorehead also vents considerable spleen against Professor Copeland. hailing him as the "self-styled sophist of Hollisian haunts," the dyspeptic bard describes one of Professor Copeland's famous readings as follows...