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    Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to...
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  • SS Irvin S. Cobb was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Irvin S. Cobb, an American author, humorist, editor...
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    1929–43, and the Irvin S. Cobb Bridge since 1943) is a ten-span, steel deck (grate), narrow two-lane truss bridge that carries U.S. Route 45 (US 45)...
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    Frank Michler Chapman, and playwright Elisabeth Cobb, whose father was the author and humorist Irvin S. Cobb. When she was young, her parents divorced and...
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    Elisabeth Cobb (1902–1959) was an American writer. Her father was Irvin S. Cobb, a well-known humorist. One of her best known works was her 1934 novel...
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  • film directed by John Ford, based on material taken from a series of Irvin S. Cobb "Judge Priest" short stories featured in The Saturday Evening Post in...
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  • In 1907, Harry K. Thaw was tried for the murder of Stanford White. Irvin S. Cobb, a contemporary reporter, explained why the trial fascinated the country...
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    1892, p. 1 "The Farce Over", Kansas City Journal, March 2, 1893, p. 4 Irvin S. Cobb, Exit Laughing, Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. http://www.yellowdogdemocrat.com/history...
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  • the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Irvin S. Cobb. As of this ceremony, the Academy's award eligibility period coincided...
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    origins are also cited, for example, in his 1911 story "Fishhead", Irvin S. Cobb claimed the lake "[took] its name from a fancied resemblance in its...
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    Brookport Bridge, which is officially known as the "Irvin S. Cobb Bridge" in honor of author Irvin S. Cobb, who was born in Paducah. The two-lane steel deck...
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  • a 1935 novel by Humphrey Cobb, the basis of the Stanley Kubrick film Paths of Glory, a 1915 book written by Irvin S. Cobb; a non-fiction account of his...
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    articles about the miniature bear made it a fascinating creature. In 1920, Irvin S. Cobb, a well-known writer for The Saturday Evening Post, organized a hunting...
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  • Tennessee. It is referenced in the Irvin S. Cobb short story "Fishhead". Gaslight, "Fishead", by Irvin S. Cobb (first published on January 11th, 1913...
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  • October 17, 1930; cited in Robert M. Price, The Innsmouth Cycle, p. 3. Irvin S. Cobb, "Fishhead," The Innsmouth Cycle, p. 27. H. P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural...
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  • Sol M. Wurtzel in association with Fox Film, and based on humorist Irvin S. Cobb's character Judge Priest. The picture is set in post-reconstruction Kentucky...
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    Rogers was commander of all colonels west of the Mississippi; Colonel Irvin S. Cobb in-charge of all colonels east of the Mississippi; Colonel Felix Feist...
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    before by Irvin S. Cobb in an account of his journalistic experiences at the start of that war. It was then taken up in the unrelated Humphrey Cobb's 1935...
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  • nickname that may refer to: Irvin S. Cobb, nicknamed "Duke of Paducah" Benjamin Francis Ford, known as The Duke of Paducah William S. Heatly, nicknamed "Duke...
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    McNaught Syndicate was sitting pretty with O. O. McIntyre, Will Rogers and Irvin S. Cobb on its list. The New York Herald Tribune offered Don Marquis and Franklin...
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  • stars Bob Burns, Fay Bainter, John Beal, Jean Parker, Lyle Talbot and Irvin S. Cobb. The film was released on October 14, 1938, by Paramount Pictures. The...
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    Administration. "Richard Montgomery". Ship History Database Vessel Status Card. U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration. Retrieved 16 December...
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  • Erskine Caldwell Alice Cary Willa Cather Charles W. Chesnutt Kate Chopin Irvin S. Cobb August Derleth Alice Dunbar Nelson Edward Eggleston Sui Sin Far William...
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  • the "Trial of the Century". The term "sob sister" dates to 1907, when Irvin S. Cobb derided the women reporters who were covering the trial of Harry K....
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    Johnson's exploits first came to national attention in an article by Irvin S. Cobb entitled "Young Black Joe" published in the August 24, 1918 Saturday...
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    and was the only governor of Kentucky who never married. Journalist Irvin S. Cobb remarked, "I never saw a man who, physically, so closely suggested the...
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    (1864–1922) Heywood Broun (1888–1939) Mazie E. Clemens (1890s–1952) Irvin S. Cobb (1876–1944) Eliza Archard Conner (1838–1912) Varina Davis (1826 – 1906)...
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  • Parker, Murray Roth and Lamar Trotti. The film stars Jane Withers, Irvin S. Cobb, Slim Summerville, Dean Jagger, Muriel Robert and Ivan Lebedeff. The...
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  • gallows. Will Rogers as Doctor John Pearly Anne Shirley as Fleety Belle Irvin S. Cobb as Captain Eli Eugene Pallette as Sheriff Rufe Jeffers John McGuire...
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    William Jennings Bryan, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, Billy Sunday, Irvin S. Cobb, Alvin York, Harry Lauder, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The auditorium...
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