Word: comical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero was a one-toothed, big-eared urchin. He thought it would be a good idea for the World to run his cartoons in color. The World thought so too. The urchin of Hogan's Alley appeared in a yellow nightgown. Thus was born the first colored comic strip...
...idea that Farm Relief should not be without some comic relief. At Omaha, he had again handled with gloves that troublesome symbol, the Equalization Fee. Without gloves he had man-handled the G. O. P.'s eight-year "solicitude and sympathy" for the farmer. If it had "listened well" to Republican Governor McMullen, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith was content. He continued his inspection of the State capitol which the late, great Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue of New York designed for Nebraska...
English wit on the Manhattan stage consists largely of crossing the slang out of comic strips and reading them in a British accent. But comic strips can be and are often funny; the best comedy in The High Road is out of "Bringing Up Father." Lord Trench (Frederick Kerr) is Dinty Moore to his wife (Hilda Spong) who refers to him as "you horrible old man;" between the two there is an alternating current of abuse. Edna Best who plays Elsie Hilary is superior to Ina Claire in that she can deliver an epigram without tying her lips into...
...arrives from Australia. The clan has become decadent and these two are about to go bankrupt, for some reason, when word arrives that another and hitherto forgotten relative has died in the Antipodes, leaving them a fortune. Thus convinced that blood is a bit thicker than water, the supposedly comic relatives shake hands all around and the play is over...
...Spaeth has collected a notable array of heterogeneous minstrel favorites? ribald, comic, sentimental, naïve. Some of these songs, and many old chestnuts, have been ordered into a very playable "working model" which will undoubtedly be used as a basis for many an amateur theatrical?to say nothing of radio boys' programs...