Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally Punch printed a cartoon, sensational in England, elfinly recalling that while efforts were being made to get the Queen Mary down the river on which she was built and out to sea, she became stuck at both ends (TIME, April 6). Punch, showing a canal barge in the same predicament, had its helmsman cry to the barge captain: "Don't forget, Cap'n, the same thing happened to the Queen Mary...
...husband, who "had been gone for nigh on ten years," suddenly appeared. At first Hoople was a grotesque, sawed-off figure not much taller than his little Nephew Alvin. Gradually Hoople grew into a genial, full-sized, bulbous braggart, dominated "Our Boarding House." N. E. A. boosted the cartoon's distribution until it now ranks among the first ten comics...
Next to Vassar's "Future Gold Star Mothers," I think the above mentioned ad the rottenest exhibition of very bad taste that I have known in my entire lifetime. There is nothing in the drool (in smaller print) under the cartoon that can lessen the sting of the picture and its caption...
...Mayor Kelly, was rewarded when the city changed its clocks to Eastern Standard Time to give the morning Tribune a circulation advantage over the evening News (TIME, March 9 et ante). The Tribune backed Dr. Bundesen and when Kelly said Horner was a hod carrier, the News published a cartoon of the Governor showering bricks on the Mayor...
...committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television passed a gruesome mile stone in Crystal Palace when a technician made some adjustments, fumbled, was electrocuted - television's first victim...