Word: cartoonist
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Bald, burly, able Artist George Benjamin Luks, 65, onetime signpainter, circus Wagon decorator, newspaper cartoonist in Cuba, oldtime rowdy Bohemian, began to worry about making a sideshow spectacle of himself after promising the Artists' Cooperative Market in Manhattan that he would paint a portrait of Dancer Doris Humphrey, for charity, before an audience of gaping New Yorkers. Coming well fortified for the ordeal, Artist Luks leaped on the platform, shouted at the astonished gathering: "I'm George Luks and I'm a rare bird! . . . You might as well leave the platform, young woman...
...than he intends, he apologizes for this collection of outbursts by saying that in an old world one must still amuse oneself like a child. Every Englishman is familiar with cartoons of Winston Churchill picturing his bulging forehead crowned by a tiny hat. He explains that this is a cartoonist's invention, necessitated by the fact that he has no "distinctive mark," based on a single instance when he had to borrow a hat that was too small for him. At Monte Carlo he usually bets on red because he has a "preference for the optimistic side of things...
Divorced, Ruth Goldstein; by Julius J. Goldstein, Manhattan silk merchant; in Manhattan. Grounds: misconduct with Cartoonist Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley...
...looked like the long-awaited "break" by ambitious young Mr. Roosevelt. He was indignantly accused of "slurring" the Court's high character. Two Republican ex-Governors of New York (Whitman and Miller) were publicly amazed and shocked. Paul Drennan Cravath, whose person might have been the model for Cartoonist Rollin Kirby's personification of the G. O. P., was sure all decent lawyers would "resent" the statement. President Hoover at Indianapolis thundered...
...physicians. Brother Austin, eight years Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame University, gained fame as a scientist and oculist. Also he was a Latin scholar, conducted voluminous correspondence with Popes Leo XIII and Benedict XV. Brother William was a naval captain. Frank began work as a smalltown newspaper cartoonist in Pennsylvania, quit when a mine foreman whom he had caricatured fell down a shaft and was killed...