Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stars & Stripes. ... I like Blondie because through her I get an idea of the American way without straining my brains. But Dick Tracy and Moon Mullins are not very funny to me. . . . Terry and the Pirates are a mere children's story. . . . Li'l Abner is a cartoon I can't understand...
...Drinkwater thinks that Western's new stock issue will put it in sound financial shape. To keep it that way, he intends to order a general economic belt tightening. His first act as Western president will be to introduce (on interoffice memos) a Li'l Abner-like cartoon of an Indian (Western's trademark) tightening his belt. Said Drinkwater: "A fat Indian isn't an efficient Indian...
Mysteriously billed as the rider, "A Scandal in Paris" is a far more satisfactory show, and, in the absence of a cartoon, is the only obstacle between the U.T. patrons and three hours of fitful slumber. Arthur Pressburg's screen adaptation of the escapades of Francois Vidoque, 19th century lover and second story man extraordinaire, does not wallow in the mire of an uncoordinated plot, hopefully punctuated with gags, but relies on well developed comedy of situation in an interesting and smoothly flowing story. Ably supported by Akim Tamiroff, handsome George Sanders filches ladies' garters and coffers of jewels between...
...along. For reasons entirely outside the A.E.C. negotiations (possibly including lack of progress in Russian laboratories), the U.S.S.R. was now making the sort of concession that Mr. Baruch had been stubbornly demanding. But the Russians last week were bypassing Baruch, whom they still attack bitterly. Pravda recently printed a cartoon showing the silver-haired elder statesman gardening among the atoms (see cut). The words on the sign at left ("Made in U.S.A.") are understandable to all Russians, so familiar have they become on Lend-Lease supplies. Under the cartoon were 20 lines of doggerel. Sample verse...
...amazingly) the reduction of English to 850 basic words through which any thought can be expressed. It is in addition the end-product of a voyage of discovery which has taken Professor Richards around the world, and from a painstaking consideration of the meaning of meaning itself to cartoon work with Disney...