The Fable of the Good People Who Rallied to the Support of the Church
The loyal women of the congregation decided to pull off a festival and raise some coin for the support of the church. The next Thursday at prayer meeting the minister announced the glad news to the faithful. Then all began to get ...
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"George Ade (1866-1944) is now almost entirely forgotten, although his name still turns up in crossword puzzles. In the first two decades of the twentieth century, his humour pieces and plays were phenomenally popular in America. Most of his work has badly dated: for example, his 1902 musical comedy 'The Sultan of Sulu' was a satire on America's colonisation of the Philippines ... hardly a red-hot topic for modern audiences. Ade's best-known and most popular works were his 'Fables in Modern Slang': these were moralistic tales recounted in a jazzy slang style that ..."
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The loyal women of the congregation decided to pull off a festival and raise some coin for the support of the church. The next Thursday at prayer meeting the minister announced the glad news to the faithful. Then all began to get ...