Arthur Baer
Arthur Baer
Arthur "Bugs" Baerwas an American journalist and humorist. Baer was prominent in the New York City journalism and entertainment scene for many years and worked as a sports journalist and cartoonist. Called by the New York Times "one of the country's best known humorists", he wrote the humor column "One Word Led to Another" for the King Features Syndicate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth9 January 1886
CountryUnited States of America
empty cab
An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.
full
His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.
She's generous to a fault - if it's her own.
diet food lay russian-revolutionary
She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
ladies looked
The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness
pun
It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.
alimony oats russian-revolutionary
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
silence thumbs demand
If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
law would-be human-nature
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
drinking liquor illegal
Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.
honesty heart player
About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.
men rope helpful
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
past lambs lefties
Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.
history imagination
[History is] petrified imagination.