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The 1920s was the age of the Algonquin Round Table, when a quick wit--the ability to turn a phrase under pressure--was a hot commodity. Some of the writers who signed the bookshop's door achieved the prize position of weekly columnist at one of New York's many newspapers, and were expected to fill their space with comic substance on a regular basis. Christopher Morley, in his Bowling Green column, achieved this in a manner quite different from his mentor Don Marquis. Other humorists on the door used the pen to create humor in images and text at once, creating cartoons in an age known for its remarkable cartooning. Some of the humor of the period translates magnificently to our own time, while some is opaque to modern ears and eyes, its cadences, vocabulary, and context impossible to reconstruct without great labor.
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Creator: Hansen, Harry
Title: "Main Street" in The Greenwich Villager
Imprint: 1.1 (9 July 1921)
Item Date: 1921
Material Type: Newspapers
Curatorial Department: Vertical File
Collection Name: Christopher Morley Collection
Stack Location: Box 601, Folder 205
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Harry Hansen's "Main Street" in the Greenwich Villager, 1921