Word: viennaâ
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...accident of his birth is one of the funniest things about this thoroughly American versifier. When you meet him, you will find an earnest little gentleman, with a habit of talking swiftly and seriously, in a twang that is unmistakably U. S. A. He was born in Vienna???of American parentage, to be sure. However, any Viennese tendencies he may have had were safely obliterated by college training at the College of the City of New York, from which he was graduated in 1891. He then turned to editorial work and used the famous blue pencil in such offices...
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