Read Ebook: The Illiterate Digest by Rogers Will Collier Nate Illustrator
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TWO LETTERS AND A DEDICATION 5
INTRODUCTION 17
BREAKING INTO THE WRITING GAME 27
SETTLING THE CORSET PROBLEM OF THIS COUNTRY 39
HOW TO TELL A BUTLER, AND OTHER ETIQUETTE 47
DEFENDING MY SOUP PLATE POSITION 57
HELPING THE GIRLS WITH THEIR INCOME TAXES 69
THE GREATEST DOCUMENT IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 77
PROSPECTUS FOR "THE REMODELED CHEWING GUM CORPORATION" 87
INSIDE STUFF ON THE TOTAL ECLIPSE 99
IT'S TIME SOMEBODY SAID A WORD FOR CALIFORNIA 111
PROMOTING THE OCEANLESS ONE-PIECE SUIT 121
WARNING TO JOKERS: LAY OFF THE PRINCE 131
SPRING IS HERE, WITH POEMS AND BATH TUBS 141
MY FORD AND OTHER POLITICAL SELF-STARTERS 151
WILSON COULD LAUGH AT A JOKE ON HIMSELF 159
A JOB WITH THE JAMES FAMILY 171
LET'S TREAT OUR PRESIDENTS LIKE HUMAN BEINGS 181
WHAT WITH FRUIT JUICE AND CONSOMME, IT WAS A WILD PARTY 193
WHAT WE NEED IS MORE FRED STONES 203
ONE OIL LAWYER PER BARREL 217
ANOTHER CONFESSION IN THE OIL SCANDAL 227
THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH 237
WELL, WHO IS PRUNES? 249
POLITICS GETTING READY TO JELL 261
TWO LONG-LOST FRIENDS FOUND AT LAST 269
THEY NOMINATED EVERYBODY BUT THE FOUR HORSEMEN 279
IN THE MIDST OF A 7-YEAR HITCH 287
"WILL ROGERS, JR." REPORTS THE CONVENTION FOR HIS FATHER, WORN OUT BY LONG SERVICE 297
ROPING A CRITIC 305
"THE WORLD TOMORROW," AFTER THE MANNER OF GREAT JOURNALISTS 313
SETTLING THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD IN MY OWN WAY 323
A SKINNY DAKOTA KID WHO MADE GOOD 333
TAKING THE CURE, BY THE SHORES OF CAT CREEK 345
FOOTNOTES:
With apologies to Arthur Brisbane.
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You Are Going to Get the Low-Down on Some of Those Birds Who Are Sending Home the Radish-Seed 26
They Are Carpeting All the Halls of the Senate So in Case of a Fall There Will Be No Serious Loss 31
As I Opened the Door to Let Her in 2 of Our Dogs and 4 Cats Came In 46
Birds That Never Can Tell the Servants from the Guests 53
I Would Invent a Triangle Shape Slide That Could Be Pushed Under the Plate 56
Song Writers Should Be Segregated and Made to Sing Their Songs to Each Other 76
Why Can't I Do Something With Second-Hand Gum? 86
The More Glasses You Used the More Eclipse You Could See 98
I Just Happened to Remember That No One Had Said a Word for California 110
I Want to Do Something for the Home Town Girl So She Can Stay at Home and Show How and What She Is Made Of 120
So I Got Me Some of Those Long-Handled Wooden Hammers and Started in at Polo 130
Finally a Warden Knocked at My Dressing Room and Said: "You Die in 5 More Minutes for Kidding Your Country" 158
I Could Just Sorter Nonchalantly Step on the Bride's Train 170
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