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Humor Dead or Alive
Woodward, W. E. | February 11, 1925 issue

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The article presents information about the books "Illiterate Digest," by Will Rogers and "Selected Works," by Artemus Ward. Rogers is one of the circling matadors. Superficially he is part of a girl-show called the Ziegfeld Follies, but at bottom he is a humorous philosopher, a cowboy Montaigne and all-around sly bird. In other words, he is a great deal deeper and more subtle than he seems to be at first glance. Ward's book is rather melancholy reading. Mr. Ward lived in a time when women were called "females" and it was considered funny to misspell words. It was an era when millions of people who had suddenly become well-to-do were beginning to feel a vast cultural and intellectual inferiority.

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BOOKS; ILLITERATE Digest (Book); SELECTED Works (Book); ROGERS, Will, 1879-1935; WARD, Artemus, 1834-1867; WIT & humor
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