Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the permanent features of the Bunny Ratch (an original cartoon by Walt Disney illustrating the nickname shares the place of honor in the dining hall with the portrait of a Saltonstall) is the capacious and well-stocked library, equipped with deep leather furniture that is conductive to relaxation if not to concentration...
...turned the lobby into a temporary warehouse. Flags flew in Brno. Pilsen begged the Austrians to visit its best hotel. And in two coal mines of Ostrava, miners promised to work two extra shifts digging coal for Austria. In hockey-happy Czechoslovakia the joke of the week was a cartoon showing a man carrying a bag overflowing with rare food. "Stop him," cries a woman. "He's a black marketeer." "Oh, no," comes the answer. "Just an Austrian...
...shipped over the border each year make a big difference in northern Mexico's prosperity. Last week, while the U.S. Congress shoved through bills for veterinary help in stamping out Mexico's aftosa, Mexicans awaited the man who would have to take action. El Universal ran a cartoon of the President arriving in his "Sacred Cow"-"one cow that is not afraid to move around these days...
Stock Role. Thus assembled for their adventure, each of Steinbeck's principal characters may be dimly identified with a stock role in a leftist parable. Juan is a figure of free enterprise and individualism -sexual, of course, as well as economic. Pritchard is a cartoon of the corpsy soul of Anglo-U.S. capitalism, self-deceived and remote from natural life; Mrs. Chicoy is a type of frank, stupid and violent sensuality; Mrs. Pritchard is The Nice Woman, that baneful figure, whose frigidity is the source and symbol of her other deathly qualities; Mildred, her sulky offspring, apparently represents...
...strange, new, hermetic world, beguiling, hypnotic and gently self-destructive. Thenceforth she would be bombarded by the ultraviolet and infrared rays peculiar to Hollywood, and the anthropophagous attentions most peculiar of all to MGM. She might imagine M-G-M saying, like the doctor in James Thurber's cartoon: You're not my patient, Miss Kerr, you're my meat...