The Link, Vol. 12 (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Link, Vol. 12 If You Had Been a Very Important Person in Denver eighty-odd years ago, its quite possible you would have picked up the city´s leading daily some morning and there read a joke that pointed right at you as the victim. Angry clear through, you would have rushed off to express your feelings to the editor. But there you might have been handed another surprise. The friendly, bald-headed gentleman who seemed to be so contrite and so genuinely sorry for your embarrassment, would no doubt have pointed to a paper-littered chair and invited you to sit down and "talk things over." You sat - and went right through! The chair had no bottom. Scores of prominent citizens in the Colorado city got their introductions to Eugene Field in this manner. That broad black-walnut chair could have told tales aplenty of the libel suits that never came off because the injured party discovered that the waggish editor was only a boy at heart. To the Eugene Field day of his death Eugene Field never outgrew his love of practical joking. America saluted this man with the utmost respect during his heyday. In St. Louis first, then in Denver, and last of all in Chicago, Field revealed himself as one of the most brilliant journalists of the period. The audience of his daily column, "Sharps and Flats," was certain that no writer had ever poked such glorious fun at the "Windy City´s" stuffed shirts. But children really loved him. They knew all about his merry home life. Eugene was devoted to his eight lively sons and daughters and to the wife he had married when she was only sixteen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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