Ade

George Ade, the "funny man," is independent financially from the royalties paid him on his copyrights.

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The captions of the George Ade fables are uniformly good, and there are other notable exceptions.

As Lem stepped out into the other room, the caller-out was shouting, "Promen-ade all—you know where!"