Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dolly was the only comic character on the Nicaraguan stage. In the Officers' Club down the curving street from the palace, The Boss-tired, nervous ex-President Anastasio Somoza-ruled the powerful National Guard and sat on the country's formidable stack of arms. From the haven of the Mexican Embassy, old Dr. Leonardo Argüello, who had been kicked out of the presidency when he turned on The Boss and decided to run the country himself (TIME, June 2), spoke out with surprising boldness. Biding its time was Somoza's real opposition, led by General...
Harold Lloyd, callow comic of the silents (and star of Preston Sturges' forthcoming The Sin of Harold Diddlebock), was elected Imperial Chief Rabban of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine...
...years ago Louisville Publisher Mark Ethridge made a realistic appraisal: "I have always felt that those who said [the Tribune's] great hold came from comic strips and other features were wrong: it possesses an animal vigor. . . ." Out of the side of its mouth, the Tribune proudly accepted the tribute: "Comes the dawn. It ain't Orphan Annie. It's the hair on our chest." The editorial staff has a talent for translating the Colonel's often pompous edicts into gutty, readable prose...
Such frenzied advertising flashes, emitted largely by the radio and Sunday newspaper comic section ads, have heralded the postwar return of "premiums," the somewhat mysterious business in which everything from atomic rings to nylon stockings can be bought at cut prices with the proper number of box tops, soap wrappers, etc. Ever since 1851, when Benjamin Talbot Babbitt, the father of packaged soap, got the idea of offering sentimental chromos for 25 Babbitt's Best Soap wrappers, premiums have helped sell thousands of items...
...schizophrenic kleptomaniac, next mistakes her be-limousined father for a sugar daddy. As anyone could predict, Boy eventually becomes so successful that at picture's end he can stand the shock of learning who Girl really is. Otto Kruger supplies his touch of suavity, Jack Carson his considerable comic talent, and Janis Paige her banjo eyes and pretty curves-but none of these attractions can save the tired old story...