Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undertone had reached the proportions of a shout. One Earl Lee Kelly, a stem-winding, dyed-in-the-wool Republican, let fly with a speech which accused Warren of "vacillation . . . opportunism . . . political expediency" and lack of "courage and character." He mailed out 50,000 copies of an anti-Warren cartoon, which showed the governor frantically trying to ride an elephant and a donkey going in opposite directions. And he hinted that he might run against Warren in next year's primary...
...readers unmovedd. Main Street moved them. When it appeared (1920), U.S. readers swooped upon it with a cry of shocked delight, and made it their own. Gopher Prairie, first savagely repudiated and then eagerly claimed as the pen name for Lewis' birthplace, Sauk Centre, Minn., was a cartoon of all U.S. small towns slashed on in strokes broad enough to be unmistakable to the most reluctant. Its inhabitiants, at once fearsome and folksy, were at best expertly stage-managed simulacre of U.S. small-town types, at worst human caricatures of something ineluctably real. Its heroine, Carol Kennicott, the Madame...
Last week, for perhaps the first time since he left the Army, Bill Mauldin hit upon a cartoon idea that had the impact of his best G.I. cartoons. The subject...
...cartoon in the weekly Tribune showed a British kid asking a G.I.: "Any gum, chum, on a strictly longterm, interest-free, dollar-loan basis...
...than with new products and gadgets-fabrics made from glass, steaks and biscuits made from yeast, three-dimensional photographs in full color, a portable cosmic ray detector, portraits painted in fluorescent paints that can be seen only in the dark. (One of his prized possessions is a Krazy Kat cartoon -"Why is somebody always trying to smash the poor I'll adam...