Word: caricaturistic
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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...
President Calles, by Luis Hidalgo, famed Mexican caricaturist, was a most grossly insulting and funny portrait of this famed statesman. Hidalgo's faunlike Lindy showed the aviator riding a ridiculous horse around the world...
...first letter appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1887, correcting a statement that George Cruikshank, famed caricaturist, was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery -his tomb really being in St. Paul's Cathedral. His most recent letter appeared last month-on Beethoven. Meanwhile he has written on every subject, but chiefly "of graves, of worms and epitaphs." Searching for epistolary material he has become an expert on London and Paris burying grounds. Disappointments, which come to every man in public life, forced his retirement in 1903. He came back. In 1908 he retired again, publicly and with strong vows...
...means yet run dry. He babbles gently on in parody of Sherwood Anderson, H. G. Wells, Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Beer, polar expeditions, founding a night club, interviewing celebrities, solving crimes, stabilizing francs. His method of reductio ad imbecillum is to expound a subject in its simplest terms, putting caricaturist's emphasis on one or two superficial details. Example: "According to Dr. Max Hartmann . . . there is no such thing as absolute sex. If 60% of your cells are masculine you rate as a male. If 60% are feminine, you sit with the girls. All combinations are possible...