Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...council will have no enforcement powers: it will have to stand on the prestige and good sense of its members. In setting it up, many a Congressman acted with tongue in cheek: the council could easily become a national cartoon subject...
...entertained them with unaccountable selections from a full library of modern films. The feature was Sunbonnet Sue, a sentimentally saccharine "B" picture which scratched and jerked across the screen for 80 minutes. (General Shtykov's interpreter gave up after five minutes.) Sunbonnet Sue was followed by an animated cartoon about Traphappy Porky, a jitterbugging pig, which added to the Russians' puzzlement. Promptly after the final flicker, the Russians filed silently...
Newspapers then were few and bad; the public paid up to a shilling a print for what were, in effect, editorial cartoons. George III complained that he "could not understand" Caricaturist James Gillray's pictorial attacks on him. The King would have had to be stupider than history has made him to miss the venom of Gillray's cartoon showing "Farmer George" sleepily sloffing up a soft-boiled...
Gene Kelly assumed virtual monarchy of the Hollywood dance with his animated cartoon sequence in "Anchors Aweigh." "Yolanda and the Thief" marks the formal abdication of Mr. Astaire...
...Webster dips his pen only rarely into politics. For Lincoln's Birthday 1940, Webster drew a forlorn, storm-whipped, benighted, wilderness cabin, a light in its window like the fever of birth. The caption: Ill-Fed-Ill-Clothed-Ill-Housed. During the war he drew a cartoon showing soldiers, under fire in the Pacific, listening to a radio's soapy-voiced report on the progress of a strike. But mostly he is content to give the U.S. newspaper public a much needed, and not too loaded, laugh for its three or five cents' worth...