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He Made Laughing Easy:
Cartoonist Reuben Goldberg poked fun at 20th-century complexity. Here, one of his characters explains how to shut off the radio. Today, dictionaries define "Rube Goldberg" as "accomplishing by complex means what seemingly could be done simply."
The Sporting World:
In the 1920s, sports reporters produced some of journalism's most colorful writing. Grantland Rice turned Notre Dames's football backfield into the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" in perhaps the most-quoted sports story ever written: "In dramatic lore, they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley, and Layden." |