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The gags were threadbare, the gist substantially the same as a speech Jolter Barnes gave two years ago in New York, before the Freethinkers' Society.

From Time Magazine Archive

The extra letters were from alumnae, begging him to drop Jolter Barnes.

From Time Magazine Archive

He declared Jolter Barnes's theological speech an unwarranted intrusion on a scientific body.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Fosdick ignored Jolter Barnes's invitation to make up a new God.

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Next Bobby sent for Jolter and laid the facts before him, to the great joy of that aggressive gentleman.

From The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by Flagg, James Montgomery