Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation was best described in a political cartoon of the moment: A valet, perched precariously on a window-ledge and peeking in through a lighted window at a damsel within, gestured excitedly to a gallant standing below. Another gallant was striding off down the street, having evidently refused the invitation. The gallant under the window eyed his departing peer. What...
What had happened politically (in terms of the cartoon) was this: the Democratic gallant had, at the valet's suggestion, paid his compliments to the damsel but remained uncertain whether she was sleeping or weeping. What had happened morally was that Nominee Smith had not committed himself on the Farm Problem beyond the terms of the Democratic plank. At the same time he had apparently persuaded Farmers' Friend Peek to stop insisting on a thing called the Equalization...
...peculiar reason the Buckingham banquet was especially merry. Reason: the British Royal House of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, which changed its name to the House of Windsor during the War, became slightly estranged from the French House of Bourbon, when a most scurrilous cartoon of British Queen Victoria was openly guffawed at by "King Louis Philippe III of France," the cousin and predecessor of the present "King Jean III." Since the Royal Guffawer is now dead and the cartoon forgotten, it was easy, last week, for their Britannic Majesties to bestow gracious hospitality upon Dauphin Henri, a handsome youth...
...basso profundo of the Metropolitan Opera Company, being entertained by the Berlin Actors' Club, was asked to amuse his hosts with a specimen of song. He arose but instead of singing, delivered a brief address on his life. "Sing, sing!" shouted the bad actors. Chaliapin drew a charcoal cartoon of himself which amused his audience but did not stop their demands for song. Chaliapin rose a third time, went through the motions of an aria, puffing his chest, swinging his arms, opening and shutting his mouth like a large Russian goldfish, without making a sound. After the performance...
When details of His Royal Highness' cartoon leaked out, last week, serious minded Britons recalled with indignation that during Chancellor Churchill's great Budget speech Edward of Wales sat in the gallery, just over the clock, with paper, pencil, and an innocent, virtuous air of taking notes...