Word: clared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women. Its biggest attraction was an extravagant bonus plan to be pushed in Congress: $3 for each veteran's day of home service; $4 for each overseas day; a flat $500 for a wound; a maximum bonus of $4,500. But the V.F.W. had yet to de clare its willingness to let the youngsters take over...
Only a few, like Webster, still try to stick to the comic strip's old and worthy function: holding a mirror to a recognizable U.S. life. The late Clare Briggs's Mr. and Mrs., as an appreciation of marriage, made books like Cass Timberlane .look as naive as Daisy Ashford. Harry J. Tuthill's remarkable Bungle Family, almost alone among comics, dared to gaze steadily at the plain, awful ugliness and clumsiness to which the domesticated human animal is liable. When you have counted these -and Frank King's mild, wholesome Gasoline Alley, Chic Young...
Next to becoming a cartoonist, he al ways wanted most to be a clown. When he was grown and married, he got his wish. He made several tours with Ringling Bros., one with his wife and the late cartoonist Clare Briggs. (Even now, when the circus comes to Bridgeport, the Websters dress up and ride in the parade.) Ethel Webster became a good enough bareback rider to receive, and reluctantly turn down, a professional offer. She is also pretty certainly the only non-professional woman ever to ride down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on the nape of an elephant...
...Woman's Home Companion readers in a poll of the living Americans they most admired. Runners-up, in order: President Harry S. Truman, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, ex-President Herbert Hoover and Motorman Henry Ford (tied for fifth place), ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, Crooner Bing Crosby and Comedian Bob Hope (also tied...
...Clare Boothe Luce, reasoning that if vacation-time fishing trips are good for Congressmen, a little summer-theater acting might be just the thing for a playwrighting (The Women) Congresswoman, wound up rehearsals for her on-stage debut this week-in the title role of George Bernard Shaw's Candida, at Stamford, Conn...