Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drive motorists wild by giving pedestrians continuous right of way. To get past a Belisha Beacon one must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should a pedestrian wish to cross. No other subject in years has so roused Punch, which now prints an average of two Hore-Belishing cartoons a week. Asks an irate female motorist in a recent cartoon across which smug pedestrians stroll (see cut): "Don't you loathe these beastly Belisha faces...
...order to restore to London what he called "the priceless boon of sleep" he issued a dread ukase that no horn may be sounded between 1.1:30 p. m. and 7 a. m., another compelling horns to be sounded in certain specified emergencies. Jail sentences caused Punch to cartoon a motorists' prison for hornblowers and non-horn-blowers (see cut). Other Punch cartoons depicted the predicament of a motorist with a cold whose nose-blowing sounded illegal to a London Bobby (see cut, p. 19); and the instruction given by two parents to their infant...
Topped off with a cartoon featuring PopEye the Sailor Man and Grantland Rice Sportlight, the program is one that will be found entertaining for mid-week relaxation...
Schedules. In 1926, the Harvard Lampoon published a cartoon which implied that Princeton men were pigs. The result of this appalling insult was one of the most profound and bitter academic breaks in the history of sport. For four years, no Princeton teams played Harvard at any sport. After four years, contests in everything but football were arranged. Last winter, officials of both universities held an epochal meeting. The result was an agreement whereby Princeton will play Harvard at football for the first time in eight years at Cambridge, Nov. 3. Since Army and Navy settled their historic differences...
...editorial page of Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News a reader is likely to find almost anything. Last week 1,829,000 Sunday readers found a cartoon of a prison with a serpent labeled "Homosexuality" coiled within the walls. A two-column editorial was entitled...