Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explanation disturbed citizens who had expected some day to see the Charter, properly signed & sealed, in a glass case like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The whole affair seemed very suspicious to such incurably suspicious journals as the Chicago Tribune. The isolationist Tribune published a frontpage color cartoon of F.D.R. fishing, with this jingle...
...suspended for eight days for denouncing as pro-U.S. the new, tough supervisor of German firms. Argentina Libre (Free Argentina), a strongly democratic weekly closed for more than a year, was allowed to appear again. It started off with a bang, featuring on its front page a cartoon of Adolf Hitler about to be sealed in his coffin. Inside were articles by three ex-deputies, including Socialist Juan Antonio Solari, outspoken critic of the militarists. An editorial announced that the weekly had reappeared as a test of the Government's announced policy of permitting a free press...
Most of Punch's cartoons during World War II have dealt with wartime nuisances on the home front. In the Almanack, the liquor shortage is epitomized by a gloomy Saint Bernard dog whose barrel bears the sign, "No Whisky." The endless rationing and shortages inspired a cartoon of a fish vendor offering a huge fresh sea serpent for sale...
Like his readers, Mr. Punch refuses to admit that the rigors of a last-ditch war are anything more than necessary nuisances. His attitude is typified by the recent cartoon in which two men watch a new secret weapon-a buzzbomb with a loud speaker-flying over their heads. Says one: "I'm told that five seconds after the whirring sound stops it shouts a rude remark by Goebbels...
...smooth, smart advertising copywriters at Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. last week had their little annual joke on themselves and all other writers of smooth, smart department-store Christmas advertising. Macy's bought a six-column ad in the New York Times for a cartoon of a befuddled, determined male saying to a glamorous second-floor dummy: "I'm looking for the Renoir peignoir with the fabulous moonbeam bow." Underneath, Macy's printed "The Man's Glossary (revised 1944 edition) of Unfamiliar Words & Phrases-As Used by Advertising Writers to Describe Female Apparel...