Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India's foreign policy was recently illustrated by a cartoon [see cut]: a rather small Nehru walking between a big Eisenhower and a big Bulganin, having his right hand in Eisenhower's and his left hand in Bulganin's pocket, and captioned "Economic Coexistence...
Local burghers rallied yesterday to attack Radcliffe prudery as controversy simmered over a letter in Thursday's Boston Herald. The letter, signed "Radcliffian '58," denounced a cartoon about the Kinsey report now showing at a downtown theatre as incitement to immorality and mockery of marital fidelity (See page...
...Lampoon figured prominently in a rash of satires and parodies of college life and faculty members which appeared between 1910 and 1930. All of these were printed privately at the authors' expense or by the boards of the Lampoon. For the most part, these little "cartoon and comment" books were of the same rather inferior quality and content as their recent relative--Gullible's Travels Through Harvard, which had microscopic success in Cambridge last winter. By far the best were two printed by the Lampoon writers...
...barbershop, in the family parlor and the public park, the British people voiced their sympathy, their shock, their approval, their disapproval, or their angry impatience at the whole affair. The circumstances were becoming familiar enough to permit a few small and very English jokes about it. In a Punch cartoon, an impressionable child thoughtfully counted the peas on her plate to the words, "Tinker, tailor, soldier, group captain." A BBC comedian asked his straight man to read the day's news. "They had tea together again," intoned the other. But back of the little jokes and the large admonitions...
...Legion denounced it, charged that it was telling Americans that Communism was no serious threat to the nation. Herblock, a Fair Deal Democrat whose best target is the Republican right wing, is also a prime target for the Republicans. Recently, the right-wingers bombarded him heavily because of a cartoon that turned out to be badly timed. The cartoon portrayed President Eisenhower carrying Vice President Nixon on his back, with the caption: "You're going to run again, aren't we?" Herblock had drawn the cartoon before Ike's heart attack, and many U.S. papers carried...