Word: comic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need of Elbert Hubbard's Scrapbook. I could discuss Nietzsche and Freud as superficially as the rest of our friends. But when the conversation turned to political and international affairs, I looked bored and blank. He implored me to read the newspapers. I did; I grinned at the comic strips, literally "glanced over the headlines," and imbibed the weather and theatrical reports. In despair, he gave me a subscription to TIME, which I read weekly with conscientious, but sincere, interest. Now at the dinner table I am voluble with the latest gossip- of the Prince of Wales, Henry Ford...
...urchin and a policeman in comic argument. He noted "sombre men with the blessed Red Cross on their arms," with stretchers ready for emergencies, which soon arose. "A youth of fine features and clear eyes" went suddenly mad, presumably with grief. "He bellowed horribly. He stretched his hands like the claws of a leopard and leaped upon one of the guards, screaming." They carried him off. The crowd followed the coffins...
Philip's father, a handsome, slippery little dog named Jason, is brought back from 26 years of supposed death for no better purpose than to furnish comic relief to the sagging last third of the book. At the end he is killed off, by a drunken fall on his return trip to Australia, where he has an informal second wife and family...
...protect his already hopeless face from Mr. Wills's outlashing fists, waited until the fourth round to bash Mr. Wills over backwards against the ropes, down on the floor, down on the floor again. Then M. Uzcudun lay on the floor himself, flipped himself erect with a comic leer and said: "Paolino Uzcudun, champion du monde!" Champion du monde (of the world) he was anything but, having demonstrated very little except that Mr. Wills is a total anachronism. Josef Paul Cukoschay (Jack Sharkey), Boston sailor, demonstrated the same thing some months ago (TIME, Oct. 25). At that time...
...President Coolidge sent Smedley Darlington Butler to this key post of high responsibility? General Butler is a name which called up very recently no more than his comic tribulations as "Dry Tsar" of Philadelphia (TIME, Jan. 4, 1926). When the President would not extend his leave to go on with that job, General Butler resigned from the Marine Corps, only to lose immediately his post as "Dry Tsar." Nothing but the complacency of the Navy Department enabled General Butler to withdraw his resignation and scuttle back into the Corps. Yet now it is General Butler who commands...