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Statistics declare that the Average Man Finds the Average Woman and mates; That the Average Family, children all told, Is something like two and three-eights. (Though fractional children disturb and appall, The Average Man isn't worried at all.)

Wallace Irwin

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Wallace Irwin

Wallace Irwin

Born: March 15, 1875
Died: February 14, 1959 (aged 83)
Bio: Wallace Irwin was an American writer. Over the course of his long career, Irwin wrote humorous sketches, light verse, screenplays, short stories, novels, nautical lays, aphorisms, journalism, political satire, lyrics for Broadway musicals, and the libretto for an opera.
Known for:
  1. The Woman in Red (1935)
  2. The Golden Bed (1925)
  3. American Beauty (1927)
  4. Hashimura Togo (1917)
  5. Venus in the East (1919)

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