Word: almanack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britons last week chuckled over Punch Almanack for 1945, they saw nothing amiss: Punch, survivor of four wars and a score of Prime Ministers, was still a grinning replica of themselves. Founded in 1841 in imitation of the French Le Charivari, Punch or the London Charivari is less a funny magazine than a gently distorted mirror for Britons. Seeing his idiosyncrasies pleasantly caricatured in it, John Bull can laugh and feel satisfied-whether or not the world laughs with...
Most of Punch's cartoons during World War II have dealt with wartime nuisances on the home front. In the Almanack, the liquor shortage is epitomized by a gloomy Saint Bernard dog whose barrel bears the sign, "No Whisky." The endless rationing and shortages inspired a cartoon of a fish vendor offering a huge fresh sea serpent for sale...
...remarked in defense of his favorite magazine: "British humor is not to be laughed at." Punch's readers still resent any newfangled notions in their magazine, like it to keep a little behind the times. It still appears (except for its semiannual specials, the Summer Number and the Almanack) in the cover drawn in 1849 by Richard Doyle. Nevertheless Punch has made some perceptible changes in late years. Almost all of its cartoons now bear the modern single-line caption, and it has sponsored several brilliant new cartooning talents...
...novel Ryder, written in many different styles, parodyed Fielding, the Bible, Chaucer. That same year The Barnes published, privately and anonymously, her self-illustrated Ladies Almanack ("showing their Signs and their tides; their Moons and their Changes; the Seasons as it is with them; their Eclipses and Equinoxes; as well as a full Record of diurnal and nocturnal Distempers"). Says The Barnes: "By tramping the Paris streets I sold about 500 copies to bookstores and friends. Ten copies shipped to the U.S. were banned. The remainder are in France, in the hands of the Nazis...