Word: boob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, eh?" F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was "poor stuff." Said Mencken of Hemingway: "The man can't write. Just a bad boy, who's probably afraid of the dark." As for Faulkner, "there is no more sense in him than in the wop boob, Dante . . . the man hasn't the slightest idea of sentence structure or paragraphing." Angoff drops an amusing footnote to the famed "Hatrack" episode in which Mencken got himself arrested in Boston for peddling an issue of the Mercury, banned for its story, by Herbert Asbury, of a southeast Missouri...
...publisher of this influential newspaper, the Washington Post's Phil Graham realizes his great power and responsibility and aims higher with dreams of greatness, independence and institutionalism for his paper. To further this lofty and noble purpose, he hires Herblock to defame the President as a perplexed boob, the Secretary of State as a smug humbler, the Defense Secretary as a predatory capitalist and the Vice President as a bestial figure crawling out of the sewer...
...defense, switched later when the evidence piled up against him. In the Post's more recent anti-Nixon efforts, largely aimed at Nixon's use of the subversion issue as a political weapon, Graham has had to restrain Herblock. In his Republican gallery (Ike as a perplexed boob; Dulles, a smug bumbler; Wilson, a predatory capitalist), the cartoonist began drawing Nixon as a heavily stubbled, bestial figure resembling the famous Herblock caricature of Joe McCarthy. Graham sternly ordered Herblock to shave the Vice President. "Nixon is not McCarthy," he scolded, "no matter what else you may think...
...first collaboration--Capital, Capitals. When it opened in 1929, Virgil T. wrote from New York: "Some thought it a good joke, some a bad joke and one or so got quite angry ... The audience's way of taking it proved to me the possibility of having a regular boob success with opera, at least it might run long enough to pay its expenses...
...deep veldt" of his office carpet during "Thinktime" and his mind crackles with "hot intuitive ideas busting loose like popcorn over a fast fire." As chairman of the Voters' Service Committee of the Republican Party, Blade needs a hot intuitive idea that will elect an amiable Midwestern boob named Henry Clay Adams...