Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tillie the Toiler" is also on the bill. We prefer to read about her in the comic strips...
...Yorker waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary critic who might be William Lyon Phelps or Henry Seidel Canby; a Swiftian attack on Irishmen; a few poignant pages on Cousin Arnold in which is resurrected the snorting ghost of that great comic character Bascom Hawke...
Leon Henderson ripped the seat out of his pants getting out of an automobile, stood with his back to the wall at a party. A nightclub comic threw a glass of ice water in Heckler Jack Oakie's face. Mexico City police hunting a stolen car stopped a sedan, apologized to Carol of Rumania. They had the wrong number. Passenger Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s nose was buried in a book when his plane ripped through a treetop, mangled the landing gear. At Philadelphia it did a groundloop. Declared Morgenthau: "I had no fears...
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt as an individual drawing card nosed out Comic Fibber McGee for first place in number of NBC outlets. Score: Eleanor, 128; Fibber...
...intentions in effecting the change was the will of the British Empire. Oil-rich, rubber-bearing, strategically-placed Sarawak as an air base can menace Thailand, the Philippines, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies. It is far too important on the map of the South Seas today for comic opera...