Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue of TIME there was an article about the [new] Hearst comic strip. [William Randolph Hearst] speaks of the boy Dick being the son of the keeper of the Liberty Statue. It is not the Liberty Statue; it is the Statue of Liberty. He is not the keeper; he is superintendent. My name is not Dick...
Modern man has developed innumerable devices for blowing himself up, giving himself bad eyesight, high blood pressure, flat feet, nervous indigestion, and ossification of the brain. He has produced an atom bomb and a panty girdle, the vitamin pill, the comic book, the subway gum machine, the soap opera and the revolving door. But in the minds of thousands of New Yorkers all of these achievements pale when compared to the Fifth Avenue...
...Dame (mother of Boy or Girl), impersonated by a male comic...
...Antarctic's living creatures, from whales to comic penguins, will not be neglected. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, eagerly awaiting a flood of new information, has briefed the expedition on how to get well-preserved specimens back to civilization: "Use knives in cutting them up. Never axes or saws...
Tired Business. The M.C., null Blanche, played straight man to Comic Pierre Cour. Cour, pince-nezed and Tat-tersall-vested, impersonated "Monsieur Albert," who poses in café society as a rich joyeux garçon-but fools nobody, because he has forgotten to remove his bombazine bookkeeper's sleeves. Monsieur Albert heckled guest stars, mispronounced their names-a bit of business that is just as tired in France...