Word: want
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reporter: Sure, I know who to call up. All right . . . Operator. Get me J. Chester Goofus, will you? You've got his number, I think. . . . Hello, I want Mr. Goofus. Mr. Goofus...
This is the News. We're getting up a little story on that New York World cartoon, Mr. Goofus, and we want to know what you think about it. No, not that one. The one we reprinted the other day, with the two yeggs shooting at each other. Yes, that's the one. . . . You haven't thought about it? Well, we're very anxious to have a statement from you, Mr. Goofus...
Whom, for example, would a very wealthy and impudent plutocrat of Milwaukee ask to paint his features, should he want this done? He would ask Sir William Orpen, Sir John Lavery, Augustus E. John, or Ignacio Zuloaga: these, with a few others of less consequence, from a small group whose prices, higher than those of other portrait painters, average about $10,000.* Had the plutocrat desired last week to have his portrait painted, he would, if alert, have sent a cable to Augustus John for Painter John, after a frantic scurrying departure...
...portrayer of dukes or princes. Hence U. S. portraitists, able though they may be, are not so avidly patronized that their prices approach those of the most famed Europeans. George Benjamin Luks, Eugene Edward Speicher, Wayman Adams, and Leopold Seyffert probably have all the portrait work they want to do, but they do not get $10,000 apiece for their pictures...
Education is a matter of growth through practice of useful occupations rather than the acquisition of irrelevant book-learning. (Dewey's "project method" has been grossly misinterpreted in modern schools which "let the children do what they want.") Education must continue throughout life...