Ring Lectures on His Hunting Exploits By Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner teases a London style hunting talk at The Mange Great Neck outlining a comic lecture about trophies and a madam, detailing outrageous props including a rat skin rug and stuffed beasts and teasing a Swedish Prince comparison while lampooning public interest and theatrical trash.
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Ring
Ring Lardner
Connaughton
Georgetown Guard
Undersells Prince
Morris Gest
Lord Ambert
Rully Friml
Varabond
Nessary
Chicago
New York
Lardner
Tne
A Swiss Antique Hunt Turns Itinerary Treasure
Helen and Warren roam Zurich’s old town seeking antique shops with a lead upon a famed entrance. They navigate steep streets and an early breakfast terrace as Warren claws toward a elusive doorway marked Antiquitaten. The chase winds through plastered houses, arches, and a narrow riverfront, with the promise of old carved ivory amid a sunlit, bustling deck of shops.
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Exchange
Europe
Narroty River
Old Town
Helen
Prophet with X Ray Eye Fails to Read Public Mood
A noted thinker with a three story dome and supposed mind reading gifts sought to predict public events. His future gaze, once hailed by magazines in 1927 and 1914, proved unreliable as nine tenths of the public ignored him and the rest forgot his forecasts within days.
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NQE
League of Nations
Antiquing in Vienna and Zurie sparks Helen’s patient hunt
In a remote shop Helen shops for a rare ivory ball and medieval figures, paying twelve francs later snagging the piece for ten. Her husband Warren waits downstairs, and the pair prepare to depart as the antique hunt nears its end.
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Dexter
Helen
France
Vienna
Warren
Guy
Zurie
Dgort
Ade on Public Opinion in Old Topics
George Ade explores how public opinion is shaped by daily life and chatter. The column parodies a writer collecting street conversations to sample voter attitudes on European debt, revealing humor about modern life and politics.
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George Aden
Slant i
Flocida
Avery
Lars
Quee Chey
Washington
Lack Appetite Sleepless Get Back Health Now
A reader testifies to regained health after using Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Mentioned are improved appetite and strength with claims of rapid personal benefit and a suggestion to obtain a trial from a specific hotel address.
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Popson
Wes
Pierce
Gollen Medical
Nick
G. W. Waghen
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Skol
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Walter Righe
Bert Harper
Wolf
Weil
Lee Pernis
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Vis Strett
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Kelly Pool
Sunnonine
Beenz
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Lissen
Claudine
Hee Hive
Rickard
Mike
Johnson
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