Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the sidelines in San Antonio, Tex., a broadside called Frente á Frente ("Face to Face")* last week let loose an inkpot of rage against Boss Calles and his henchman Aaron Saenz, Governor of Mexico's Federal District. Its cover was a foot-and-a-half high cartoon of Calles as a redhanded, man-eating gorilla, slavering across a field of skulls (see cut). Its prose, however, was no match for this pictorial violence. One article printed in groping English described a government that could ban the word "God" from the textbooks as "such ossy, ossy, phally, prehistoric boneheads...
Gone from the front page was the customary offering of foreign news, the cartoon, the Washington column. Their place was taken by a slew of local stories, mostly short, and all written with a forced gaiety that would have made the Oregonian's late, great Editor Harvey Scott writhe in angry protest. Headlines were blacker, shallower. Inside were more and bigger pictures than Oregonian readers had ever seen. A banner headline glared across the sports page, and there were awful rumors that one might soon stream across Page One. Crowning horror was a Bible contest, with fat cash prizes...
Like all extended contests, the Post's started out to be childishly, incredibly simple. The object was to choose which of several given names best fitted a cartoon drawn by John Held Jr. A new cartoon appeared every weekday for ten weeks. The person submitting the "best or most appropriate names" to the 60 drawings in the series was to get the first prize, $10,000. However, as the contest wore on, the pictures became more and more obscure, the lists of names longer and longer, until several names seemed equally appropriate. That reduced the possibility of ties. Result...
...members for special glorification. Being thus glorified last week was one of the Academy's most distinguished members, Charles Dana Gibson. On the walls of its uptown Manhattan headquarters hung the largest exhibition he has ever given, 162 drawings and paintings dating from an anti-Tammany cartoon of 1888 to a stack of flashily painted portrait sketches and landscapes done this summer at Dark Harbor, Maine...
Shortly after a group of Harvard Lampoon graduates had moved to New York and in 1883 founded a decorous humorous publication called Life, a Wall Street office boy arrived at their sanctum with a sketchy cartoon. He was the sort of office boy the editors of Life wanted to encourage-a hard working, impoverished Boston gentleman. The editors of Life gave Charles Dana Gibson $4 for his cartoon...