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...studied cartooning in night courses at the Academy of Fine Arts. Walt drifted to Kansas after the War. He sketched cows and plows for farm journals, then set up for himself as a commercial artist. In 1920 he was working for a film slide company, and his ani mated cartoon career was launched with a series based on Kansas City topicalities. The film cost him 30? a foot, sold to three theatres. The average Mickey Mouse or Silly Symphony costs somewhere between $50 and $75 a foot; Snow White, over $200. Walt and a group of local cartoonists organized...
...accident was it that Italy's third claw was put in charge of her ablest colonial general. General Rodolfo Grazi-ani, hard bitten veteran of many a Libyan skirmish, was plowing north last week from Italian Somaliland at the head of mixed Italian and colonial troops. The terrain he will have to cross is a shade easier than that facing the other two armies, but the distance to his base, Mogadishu on the Indian Ocean, is almost twice as long, the difficulties of water, food and supplies almost twice as great. It is against him that Ethiopians have their...
Branching into elementary zoology Gillman informed the court that an ahu was a Central Asian gazelle, an ani a Brazilian variety of the keel-billed cuckoo. No slang, he insisted, was pah, which meant "bah, faugh, fudge...
...Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom had a hand in preparing the Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary. The courtroom rang for a fortnight with such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal of the internal ear." Quoted from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda...
...Riverside Drive penthouse full of souvenirs, curios and whatnots. On its terrace she raises lettuce, tomatoes, weeds which she does not like to destroy because she thinks them pretty. In Maman Savage's parlor is a nickel-&-dime bank for contributions to the Ellin Prince Speyer hospital for ani-mals-in memory of her cat, buried in Hartsdale Cemetery beneath a tombstone marked "Our Minikin." Stately and white- haired, Maman Savage wears sombre silks, heavy ornaments, a gold-rimmed pince-nez. But she is as keen-eyed and lively as any youngster, joining gaily in such Metropolitan pranks...