Word: caricaturistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Edward Estlin Cummings (e. e. cummings), 34, of Manhattan, mannered novelist (The Enormous Room), playwright (Him), poet (and, is 5) who likes to ignore capital letters, Wartime ambulance driver, son of a Unitarian minister of Cambridge, Mass.; to Anne Minnerly Barton, 31, of Manhattan, onetime wife of Caricaturist Ralph Barton...
...Caricaturist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, born in London 54 years ago, deserted art school for "literary work." His genius is for turning platitudes into epigrams and vice versa; his reputation, for making paradoxes. Indolent, jovial, fat, he has been described as a "hansom cabful"; and the story runs that one day in a tram he rose, offered his seat to three women...
...more civilized effervescence from the incomparable caricaturist...
Down at the far end of La Bombilla was the side door through which Assassin "Juan" had entered, plying the trade of a street caricaturist. The completed drawing which he had made of the President Elect lay on the table. So did the pistol which had spoken five times from concealment under the caricaturist's handful of caricatures...
...Were a caricaturist to sketch a situation that last week developed on the U. S. investment scene, he might show President E. H. H. Simmons of New York Stock Exchange as a headwaiter of a crowded restaurant, and Chairman Charles Hamilton Sabin of the Guaranty Co. as a caterer serving with his own hands a new dish to his gabbling, gobbling customers...